Posted on 11/23/2008 8:11:25 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The day after Barack Obama was elected president, Kari Fulton heard a white colleague proclaim that racism in America is dead. She cringed, worrying it might be a sign of flagging interest in the fight against discrimination.
“In reality, racism is still very much alive and well,” said Fulton, who graduated last year from Howard University, a historically black college in the nation’s capital.
Obama’s election has generated a euphoria among African Americans that is palpable. For some, the weight of history has finally been eased after generations of struggling for equality. But amid the postelection glow of racial harmony lurks a sobering fact: Racial disparities persist - in just about every measurable form - and they won’t simply melt away because the nation has an African American president.
Fulton, 23, was part of a group of young African American activists from across the country who worked to register and turn out young African_American voters in the presidential election. The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation brought the group together shortly after the election to learn about converting their enthusiasm into ongoing political activism.
“Election Day was just the beginning,” said Fulton, who lives in Washington and works as an organizer for the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative. “People don’t expect President Obama to be a superhero. We have to solve our own problems.”
The problems are significant.
About a quarter of African Americans live in poverty - nearly three times the rate for white people-at a time when rising budget deficits and expensive corporate bailouts are going to leave little federal money for anti-poverty_programs. The federal budget deficit is likely to hit a record $1 trillion next year.
African_American adults are less likely than white people to have college degrees and more likely to be in prison.
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It didn't take long for one of these articles to appear. In other words, the black activist industry has to justify their existence by flogging the false notion that there is still rampant racism in this country. The problem for them is that less and less people will buy that notion after this election.
While attending Howard, Fulton was a board member of Amnesty International Howard Chapter
http://www.youngpeoplefor.org/users/kfulton
Fulton continues to advocate and organize for educational and human rights by building awareness of the connection between environmental and social justice amongst diverse audiences and organizations.
Kari works on mobilizing students of color to take a stance against environmental racism.
It will NEVER collapse as long as someone is making seven figures on it.
Kari Fulton heard a white colleague proclaim that racism in America is dead. She cringed, worrying it might be a sign of flagging interest in the fight against discrimination.Racism in America will be dead when so-called Affirmative Action is banned. Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
This is precisely what Booker T. Washington said over a century ago, addressing the issue of the need for political intervention by his opponent, W.E.B. DuBois, who co founded the NAACP, or NAALCP as it is known in Conservative quarters.
In other words, the Race Hustlers will never go away.
...If Ms. Fulton thinks things are tough in the Inner City now, just wait until the realization hits that those 'green jobs' she's boasting about will never materialize, and that Global Warming is just a gigantic hoax, which will more than likely put a great deal of the Black, Hispanic, and rural White population out of work.
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