February 2016
REVIEWS
The Sound STC • Vol.2 Issue 02
Democracy In Black by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Listen to some of the republican candidates and you hear racism. Can
you believe it, in 2016 we still have millions of racists in North America.
Eddie Glaude teaches at Princeton Univeristy. As a black man he
has seen his own style of bigotry. He and we have seen innocent
blacks shot dead by police, for no good police reason. We’ve seen
blacks (and many other racial minorities) denied housing, health
care, education and more.
If you listen to some community leaders in Niagara, you will hear
the bigotry, the racism, the hatred. This comes largely from men
of power, men who go to church every Sunday, men who employ
others. A while back I resigned from a group because of the constant racism I heard from, yes, white guys who think they know it
all. Some of them work in our governments. I recently had a senior
government official tell me something I could not believe. I asked
him what can we do to help the employment prospects of young
people? He told me the region needs young people but not our young
people. “What,” I asked? He said “we need young people from other
places. Our young people are lazy bums.” This from a powerful man
in Niagara.
And its not only powerful people who say \