{"id":2077,"date":"2011-05-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/we-dont-talk-about-race-and-inequality-dr-mark-george-lcdp-2-may-2011.html"},"modified":"2011-05-05T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T13:00:00","slug":"we-dont-talk-about-race-and-inequality-dr-mark-george-lcdp-2-may-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/we-dont-talk-about-race-and-inequality-dr-mark-george-lcdp-2-may-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"We don&#8217;t talk about race and inequality &mdash;Dr. Mark George @ LCDP 2 May 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XTvHuHrnOJk\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/XTvHuHrnOJk\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\nDr. Mark George talked about present-day inequalities\nat the Lowndes County Democratic Party meeting.\n<blockquote>\nI can&#8217;t go to my job and pretend\nI don&#8217;t notice that all the custodial staff are black women,\nbut the vast majority of the professors are white folks.\n<\/blockquote>\nHe added that he&#8217;s all for sitting down and coming\nup with a plan for something to do about education.\n<blockquote>\nI&#8217;m all for equality, but that means equal power.\nKing did not want integration; King wanted desegregation.\nThat meant equal power equal resources\nand both at the table as equals in negotiating.\n&#8230;worked for and reflected everybody.\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XTvHuHrnOJk\">\nthe video:<\/a>\n\n<!--more-->\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XTvHuHrnOJk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<small>\nWe don&#8217;t talk about race and inequality &mdash;Dr. Mark George @ LCDP 2 May 2011\n<br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=171966716191714\">\nDebate between proponents of school system unification (CUEE) and opponents,<\/a>\n<br>\nat Lowndes County Democratic Party (LCDP), Gretchen Quarterman chair,\n<br>\nVideos by George Rhynes, Jim Parker, John S. Quarterman, and Gretchen Quarterman\n<br>\nfor LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange, Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 2 May 2011.\n<\/small>\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Mark George talked about present-day inequalities at the Lowndes County Democratic Party meeting. I can&#8217;t go to my job and pretend I don&#8217;t notice that all the custodial staff are black women, but the vast majority of the professors are white folks. 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