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Occupy Wall Street and its offshoots have been catching flak for being so white. Occupy Atlanta is no exception, getting off to a rough start last Friday when civil rights movement hero-turned-Congressman John Lewis stopped by to offer his support, only to be waved off by the mostly white general assembly, which is the Occupy movement’s collective decision-making group.
A History of Georgia’s 1%: Why You Must Face Race to Occupy Atlanta - COLORLINES
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Being anti-racist is, if you are going to set up camp and take Five Points as your center point, acknowledging that the corporate forces at play around there are totally about race. This is true currently, and it is true historically—no surprise. When Occupy Wall Street declared, “We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments,” that was old news here, friends. The plantation owners have always run Georgia’s government.
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#1 - Wed Oct 19, 2011 6:24 AM EDTWhen the rights of all Americans are at stake, we still must confront racism and that's sad.
When one American is harmed, all Americans are harmed.
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