How cuts will change the Black middle class
How cuts will change the Black middle class
- July 26, 2011
- An op-ed by Katherine Tate is featured in the New York Times July 25, 2011
From the New York Times:
As a political science professor, I teach skeptical students that politics matters.
It matters which party is in control, and who we select as our leaders. I have to
explain the same thing to cynical students in my black politics classes, too. While
some students express doubts that the elections of blacks have improved conditions
for blacks, they have. Shut out from voting and from government, they were shut out
from their fair share of government jobs, too. As African-Americans became more influential
politically through the Voting Rights Act, the black power movement and their electoral
mobilization, they were able to enter into promising careers in government. [About
the author: Katherine Tate, a professor of political science at the University of
California, Irvine, is affiliated with the university's African-American Studies Program
and Center for the Study of Democracy. She is the author, most recently, of "What's
Going On?: Political Incorporation and the Transformation of Black Public Opinion."]
For the full story, please visit http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/07/25/how-budget-cuts-will-cha....
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