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The NAACP Suit
The NAACP Suit
Walter Rhett
women to choose their path of reproduction his number one priority as record numbers of Americans suffer from being out of work!
Race as a concept as always been defined by money and power, sometimes without much success, but always with strange bed fellows.
"Race" struggled with defining humanity for slaves, than freedom and citizenship. The first civil rights struggle lost to segregation; race demanded a social and economic code of place and class. Race engaged civil rights again, and fought the idea of contentment with status quo and the limits on opportunity.
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he NAACP law suit brought against New York City seeks to overturn the Mayorsupported limits on sofa drink sizes as harmful to small minority retail business. The lawsuit is also potentially benefits CocaCola, a major corporate supporter of the NACCP. With the suit and with the President's reelection and agenda, and with Tim Scott's (RSC) appointment to the Senate, "race" enters a new phrase: it no longer reflects a conversation mainly about bias or discrimination--or even opportunity. Now the discussions about race are about ower, and new alliances that support, leverage, or oppose that power.