Forced Segregation: A Neighborhood Story

I ran across this interesting article, and could not help but think of a recent talk show segment on the poorest of people from New Orleans, who were uprooted from their homes during Katrina, and are having a tough time finding affordable housing in the area. This article is ten years old, and sadly it's still the same ole, same ole. I agree with many points made in the article, but not all. Not much has changed since this article was published.

Excerpt from the article written by Bob Avakian:

"Now we hear ignorant people who say: "My family came to the U.S. from Poland (or wherever), and we had to live in a poor neighborhood, but we all worked hard, went to church on Sundays and my parents worked and gave us a good home, and after a while my parents worked their way into better jobs and we moved out, into better housing. How come these Black people can't do this?" Or they say: "What's wrong with these immigrants from Latin America who don't even speak the right language. We spoke English when we got to the U.S. Sure we spoke Polish in our home, but we learned how to speak English. What's wrong with these people?"" READ MORE...