Prominent Rhode Island government watchdog Ken Block recently ( Sept 23, 2019 ) raised the issue of institutionalized racism as an explanation for the dismal showing of Providence Public School.
[ My Turn: Ken Block: We must end schools' institutional racism ...
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Here the very intelligent , very informed Ken Block ironically sounds a bit like the " progressive " Rhode Island Democrats who run on racial politics . So concerned and sensitive are they about racial injustice it is hard to explain their neglect of Providence public schools for the decades that they have been a monopoly entrenched power in the state .
Could it be more a CLASS injustice issue than that old time racism ? How can poor white people enjoy WHITE PRIVILEGE in the Rhode Island public schools anymore than in the outrageous prison system ?
Just as much as those conservative Republicans the Democrats serve the ruling capitalist class.
The BIG MONEY goes to the suppressive apparatus of the police state , the military , the Pentagon War Crimes Machines , corporate welfare.
So state budgets are left begging and starving . And a good share of the BIG MONEY goes to corrupt American politicians - like the crusading people's politician more and more in the news as the arch foe of President Donald Trump , Congressman David Cicilline
What does the HATE RUSSIA New McCarthyism do for poor black people or for working class white people , Mr. Cicilline ? Impeach Trump for them ?