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Ta-Nehisi Coates Feb 2 2011, 9:00 AM ET Tweet More Email Print Channing Kennedy complicates the beiging of America conversation:Jamelle's basing this on intermarriage rates, and qualifies it by saying that some nonwhites will never "become" white. An example: by some economic and health metrics, Asians are already doing better than white people -- but averages don't tell the whole story, of course, and poor Asian communities often deal with systemic oppression doubly, both as immigrants and as people of color. Working-class folks in San Francisco's Chinatown are kept vulnerable with the same mechanism as all undocumented immigrant workforces: Threats of deportation keep efforts to organize at bay, and workers have no option besides long hours,prada outlet, low pay, dangerous conditions,celine handbags, and no sick leave. And, as a historically nonwhite neighborhood, Chinatown deals with the same aftershocks of racist zoning and lending policies that destroyed so much of black Detroit. Multiple |
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