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10,000 ads in your pocket.


10,000 ads in your pocket. Billboards for iPods feature black silhouettes dancing and holding their white iPods. We get the point: blacks got groove, so buy music and be urban cool like them. But with iPods selling for as much as $500 a pop and the Census census, periodic official count of the number of persons and their condition and of the resources of a country. In ancient times, among the Jews and Romans, such enumeration was mainly for taxation and conscription purposes.  reporting that a quarter of all black folks are living in poverty, we're we're  

Contraction of we are.


we're we are
 not buying it.

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Title Annotation:Rant; Apple iPod
Publication:Colorlines Magazine
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Sep 22, 2004
Words:80
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