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Media Mystifications Should Not Obfuscate A Simple, Perceivable Fact; Black Teenage Girls Do Not Create Poverty By Having Babies. Quite The Contrary, They Have Babies At Such A Young Age Precisely Because They Are Poor--because They Do Not Have The Opportunity To Acquire An Education, Because Meaningful, Well-paying Jobs And Creative Forms Of Recreation Are Not Accessible To Them ... Because Safe, Effective Forms Of Contraception Are Not Available To Them.

I Think We Need To Insist On A Certain Responsibility, Which People Have - Particularly Those Who Have Made It Into The Ranks Of The Middle Class Because As [ Martin Luther] King Said Many Years Ago In A Sense They Have Climbed Out Of The Masses On The Shoulders Of Their Sisters And Brothers And Therefore, They Do Have Some Responsibility.

Racism Is A Much More Clandestine, Much More Hidden Kind Of Phenomenon, But At The Same Time It's Perhaps Far More Terrible Than It's Ever Been.

It Doesn't Surprise Me That Aspect Of The Black Nationalist Movement, The Cultural Side, Has Triumphed Because That Is The Aspect Of The Movement That Was Most Commodifiable And When We Look At The Commodification Of Blackness We're Looking At A Phenomenon That's Very Profitable And It's Connection With The Rise Of A Black Middle Class I Think Is Very Obvious.

That's True But I Think The Contemporary Problem That We Are Facing Increasing Numbers Of Black People And Other People Of Color Being Thrown Into A Status That Involves Work In Alternative Economies And Increasing Numbers Of People Who Are Incarcerated.