Workin' on the Chain Gang Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History

A fiery call to arms from one of America's most brilliant black voices"Black American history is American history. There is an echo of Jim Crow in the HMO: people shunted aside, denied access, and allowed to suffer with no real democratic recourse. Downsizing is an excellent way of robbing a worker of her accrued wealth. The widening gap between rich and poor is a way of demonizing the latter, because poverty is a sin in the richest country in the world. These new systems of injustice wear the trappings of freedom, but they are just as unacceptable as their forebears. The only difference is that under these systems we all suffer. This time everyone is a potential victim".-- from WORKIN' ON THE CHAIN GANGMosley, Walter is the author of 'Workin' on the Chain Gang Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History', published 2006 under ISBN 9780472031986 and ISBN 0472031988.