NAACP demo showed potential for fightback despite poor organizing
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This summer, the National Research Council released a report stating that real progress for U.S. Blacks ended in the late 1960s. These investigators concluded that with nearly a third of the nation's Blacks locked in poverty, their conditions may actually be worsening.
As if to underscore the findings of this report, Republicans and Democrats have pushed forward with an attack on working people that hits the poor hardest. President George Bush vetoed a proposal to raise the minimum wage.
The Democratic Party-controlled Congress and state and city governments continue to slash funds for education, healthcare, and other social services. The Supreme Court issued several decisions gutting affirmative-action programs that had given some women and oppressed minorities the chance to be hired into better-paying jobs previously reserved for white men.
These governmental attacks have given the green light to violent racists. On Aug. 21, a letter bomb exploded in the Atlanta regional NAACP headquarters, injuring 15 people. On Aug. 23, a gang of racist thugs in Brooklyn NA MAF Rick Reinhard/monct Visual