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@Troy I agree. And it's time for more people to do the heavy lifting. I honestly thought at my age (49) I'd never see as many white americans fight as vigorously and publicly against racism and intolerance. Certainly never thought I'd see a black president. So there's progress being made, for sure. But it has always about race. I'm reminded of that everyday. I can't help folks with their racism and don't think it's my job.

@Cynique I know you have seen so much. My respects to your strength and resilience ma'am.

I hear you both, but we can simply live are lives. If you engage with the world--they are constantly assaulted us in a myriad of ways. And when I say "they" I don;t mean all white folks or even a majority of them. I'm talking about the plutocracy, who treat poor an middle class white folks like crap too. The dot com bubble, the real estate meltdown, hyperincareation, drugs, affect them too. Sure Black folks are adversely impacted disproportionately, but making this an issue of race is why these problems can't be fixed. Racism is an invention of the ultra-rich to keep us fighting with each other rather than dealing with our real enemy.

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The U.S. House of Representatives just passed their version of Senate bill which is a large tax cut bill that benefits anyone who earns more than $900,000 a year ...47 Million Americans (what's left of the middle class) are expected to be impacted ... We aren't inching towards the haves and have nots... we are there - slaves and slave masters... This documentary shows how we got there... From the dailymotion video with english subtitles " http://filmow.com/the-end-of-poverty-t71910 The End of Poverty? is a daring, thought-provoking and very timely documentary by award-winning filmmaker, Philippe Diaz, revealing that poverty is not an accident. It began with military conquest, slavery and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land, minerals and forced labor. Today, global poverty has reached new levels because of unfair debt, trade and tax policies -- in other words, wealthy countries exploiting the weaknesses of poor, developing countries. The End of Poverty? asks why today 20% of the planet's population uses 80% of its resources and consumes 30% more than the planet can regenerate? The film has been selected to over 25 international film festivals and will be released in theatres in November 2009. Directed by Philippe Diaz, produced by Cinema Libre Studio with the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 104mins, 2008, USA, documentary in English, Spanish, French with English Subtitles. The End of Poverty The End of Poverty"

I appreciate it when people draw attention to a problem because it's one of the first steps to solving that problem, but....... But did we really need Phillipe Diaz or any other White man to "reveal" to us that poverty wasn't accidental? Come on..... White men MADE the inequality and poverty you see going on all over the world so ofcourse they are the one's best qualified to talk about it in great detail and insight. It's like what Archie Bunker told the man at the unemployment office, who tried to play sympathetic and said he understood what Archie was going through. Archie said, "You damn right you know what I'm going through because YOU'RE the one putting me through it!!" Western civilization and all of the societies that have been heavily influenced by it has ALWAYS been a society of haves and havenots.....this is nothing new. Things got a little bit better in this nation when Black people demanded more rights back in the 50s and 60s and 70s....but as soon as we got satisfied things went back to business as usual. So I'm not suprised or jumping up and down that Diaz or any other White man would do a film on a subject they help establish. What would suprise me is if he took affirmative steps to SOLVE the problem! He can start in France which I believe is the nation of his birth and convince the other White Frenchmen who have benefited off of colonialism to end their policies that are choking the life out of the African nations they formally colonized.

I will not waste any of my precious time on this planet explaining humanity to racial aggressors. None. They will need to sort it out amongst themselves. In the meantime I will live life, associate with human beings who are secure with who/what they are, go where I feel welcome and avoid where I don't.