It's funny how my learning and understanding keep evolving. For example, look at the whole code of scapegoating that is used to get people to buy into the notion of less government. This country is still in denial about racism. This keeps people from looking at the economic roots of the kind of problem we are having in our society. They have all these resources and rarely communicate with grass roots organizations.
Grassroots communities have to be organized and involved in developing analyses of communities.
Cynthia Brown, born in the South, is the Director of Southerners for Economic Justice, a grassroots organization that works with local communities to address issues relating to poverty, racism, environmental racism, and the working poor. She was elected to the Durham, N.C., City Council, and for three years she was a National Kellogg Fellow.