In which we travel into interesting waters . . . (for a fairly long trip, so be prepared) Dr. King's 1968 book, Where do we go from here: chaos or community? , is profound in that it criticizes anti-poverty programs for their piecemeal approach, as John Schlosberg of the Center for a Stateless Society [C4SS] observes: King noted that the antipoverty programs of the time “proceeded from a premise that poverty is a consequence of multiple evils,” with separate programs each dedicated to individual issues such as education and housing. Though in his view “none of these remedies in itself is unsound,” they “all have a fatal disadvantage” of being “piecemeal,” with their implementation having “fluctuated at the whims of legislative bodies” or been “entangled in bureaucratic stalling.” The result is that “fragmentary and spasmodic reforms have failed to reach down to the profoundest needs of the poor.” Such single-issue approaches also have “another common failing — ...
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No--I'm not missing fundamental differences between the two societies--I'm pointing out one way in which we are becoming more like the failed states we used to deprecate.
And if you really think that even .0001% of my intent was to snark at two Black presidents, I'm disappointed, because you know better.
One might expect better-- can be therefore taken to mean that no critical editorial cartoons of Mr Obama will be considered in good taste if the only other person in the frame is Black?
It's you from whom I would expect better ... sense.