Class matters.After reading Adolph L. Reed Jr.'s "The Real Divide" in the November issue, I wanted to shout "Hallelujah Hallelujah (hăl'əl  `yə) or Alleluia (ăl–) [Heb.,=praise the Lord], joyful expression used in Hebrew worship; cf. Pss. ! Someone gets it!" I've been telling my liberal friends for years that the real oppression The offense, committed by a public official, of wrongfully inflicting injury, such as bodily harm or imprisonment, upon another individual under color of office.Oppression, which is a misdemeanor, is committed through any act of cruelty, severity, unlawful exaction, or is not about race as much as it is about class, but to no avail. Reed not only presents this view with unarguable clarity, but he also points out how framing the situation as a racial issue actually reinforces the oppressive political and economic policies that push more and more of us onto the other side of the tracks. I live in a largely white-populated rural area that lost its family farms in the 1960s. More recently, the area lost its factories to the Third World labor market labor market A place where labor is exchanged for wages; an LM is defined by geography, education and technical expertise, occupation, licensure or certification requirements, and job experience . If you have no access to health care when you are sick, no access to higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. for your children, no job security, and don't earn a living wage, does it matter what color you are? Understanding this as a class issue can only result in greater unity, and therefore more power to resist this assault on the huge majority. Lois Latman Summertown, Tennessee
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