By David Jordan Jr
With the upcoming presidential election nearing, the United States of America has found its place in the world thoroughly dissected under an intense microscope which has continuously broadcast it’s ills and magnified its selected victories. The USA continues to boast of its claim as being the best country in the world, yet its problem on the very soil have been problems many have simply chosen to ignore. Many of the problems in this country; unemployment, educational opportunities, adequate healthcare for all citizens and the treatment of black citizens have been an ongoing issue for over a hundred years. The recent highlighting of problems specifically in the black community all have somewhat of a domino effect on the lives of black people. A lack of opportunity and education create the foundation for a life of struggle, financial hardships, rampant sickness and health ailment, crime and the destruction of the black family. Facts and statistics show how all of these factors have plagued the black community for the last century.
On April 9, 1960, Scholar, Educator, Civil Rights Activist and Historian Dr. W.E.B. Dubois spoke to the Wisconsin Socialist Club on the state of American Democracy, the difficult circumstances with which black citizens have to live with in the United States and how socialism could help rectify the ills of American Society. The irony in the words from Dr. Dubois 56 years ago is that those same problems exist in not only the black community, but in American society; and these issues are seemingly getting pushed further and further away from the spectrum of priority. Listen to Dr. Dubois speak on these things in the audio below:
