‘Nobody Should Be Trusted With That Level of Power’
“They want people thinking, and voting, on the basis of, ‘What’s best for me for easy shopping,’ not, ‘What’s best for me as a worker?'”
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“They want people thinking, and voting, on the basis of, ‘What’s best for me for easy shopping,’ not, ‘What’s best for me as a worker?'”


Janine Jackson interviewed Dedrick Asante-Muhammad about the racial wealth divide for the August 10 episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. [mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpinDedrick Asante-Muhammad Interview @http://www.fair.org/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin180810Muhammad.mp3″] MP3 Link Janine Jackson: Last September, elite media were heralding numbers suggesting that incomes were up among middle class Americans, but tiptoeing around the fact that the […]

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