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Powerful Illusions: Glen Ford blasts the exploitation of class and age divisions in the "civil rights vs. hip-hop" debate. (Politics & Bling Bling).
The historical foes of Black America--right-wing bigots and ideologues backed by corporate money--are engaged in a new and multilayered strategy to subvert the general political consensus that has prevailed among blacks since the dramatic death rattles of official Jim Crow in the mid and late '60s. Begun in earnest only a few years ago, this heavily funded, media-driven campaign seeks to undermine existing African American political structures by creating the appearance of deep class and age divisions within the black body politic.
The hard right's New Black Strategy is, essentially, an enterprise of subversion and stealth. Its immediate goal is to shatter the ...
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