Gary Younge today:
‘If there is no struggle, there is no progress," said the African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
Does political correctness really reach back into history? Douglass would have (and did) proudly described himself as Negro.
This also got me:
Even as the French
politicians talked tough, the state was suing for peace with the offer
of greater social justice. The government unrolled a package of
measures that would give career guidance and work placements to all
unemployed people under 25 in some of the poorest suburbs; there would
be tax breaks for companies who set up on sink estates; a €1,000 (£675)
lump sum for jobless people who returned to work as well as €150 a
month for a year; 5,000 extra teachers and educational assistants;
10,000 scholarships to encourage academic achievers to stay at school;
and 10 boarding schools for those who want to leave their estates to
study.
Look at what he describes as "social justice". A few more handouts from the central State. No ideathat it might actually be the constrictions imposed by that central State that lead to the alienation and social exclusion. What’s needed a little more is markets for they are colour blind.
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