Official recession-over claims reveal black suffering is not a national concern

Evidence

Claims that the recession is over, made in the face of all I have described to this point, only confirm that much of what happens in black America is not a matter of national concern—unless, of course, it threatens people who “really matter.” Such a lesson is a hard one to learn in the twenty-first century. We’re supposed to be better than this. But we are rearing a generation of black children, as we have done for so many previous generations, to believe that their lives, unlike others who have money, aren’t worth as much. This is the price of invisibility. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 61