Dear White America (18 page)

121
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” (April 4, 1967), speech at Riverside Church, NYC,
www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/058.html

122
Glenn Greenwald, Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics. (NY: Crown Books, 2008),
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0307408027/crooksandliar-20/ref=nosim/

123
Sahil Kapur, “Bachmann: Founding fathers ‘worked tirelessly' to end slavery,”
The Raw Story
(January 25, 2011),
www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/25/bachmann-founding-fathers-worked-tirelessly-slavery/

124
Elizabeth B. Wydra, “Why did the GOP ‘edit' the Constitution?”
Huffington Post.com
(January 6, 2011),
www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-b-wydra/why-did-the-gop-edit-the_b_805224.html
; Greg Sargent, “Huck Finning the Constitution,”
Washington Post.com
(January 6, 2011),
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2011/01/huck_finning_the_constitution.html
; Robert McNamara, “Censoring the Constitution and Mark Twain,”
http://history1800s.about.com/b/2011/01/07/censoring-the-constitution-and-mark-twain.htm
; Evan McMorris-Santoro, “House Reading Amended Slavery-Free Constitution This Morning,”
Talking Points Memo
(January 6, 2011),
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/house-reading-amended-slavery-free-constitution.php

125
Bob Cesca, “Super Stupid,”
Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog
(January 25, 2011),
http://bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2011/01/super_stupid_57.html

126
“Glenn Beck Failed His 40-Day Challenge,”
Media Matters.org
(October 29, 2010),
http://mediamatters.org/research/201010290040

127
Johannah Cornblatt, “‘Town Destroyer' Versus the Iroquois Indians,”
U.S. News and World Report
(June 27, 2008),
www.usnews.com/news/national/articles/2008/06/27/town-destroyer-versus-the-iroquois-indians
; “Sullivan Expedition,”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan_Expedition

128
“Limbaugh attacks Thurgood Marshall for view that original Constitution which allowed slavery was ‘defective,'”
Media Matters.org
(May 10, 2010),
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201005100049
, and “Limbaugh: ‘Elena Kagan and Thurgood Marshall look at ‘me and people like me as the oppressors,'”
Media Matters.org
(May 10, 2010),
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201005100047
; “Republicans Defend

Slavery to Attack Kagan,”
PERRspectives
(May 10, 2010),
www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/001855.htm

129
“Rick Santorum: ‘America Was a Great Country Before 1965,'”
Crooks and Liars.com
(June 5, 2011),
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/rick-santorum-america-was-great-country-19

130
Eric Hananoki, “Huckabee Explains Obama's ‘Different Worldview': ‘Our Communities Were Filled

With Rotary Clubs, Not Madrassas,'”
Media Matters.org
(March 2, 2011),
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201103020040

131
Federal Individual Income Tax Rates History, Income Years 1913-2011
, The Tax Foundation,
www.taxfoundation.org/files/fed_individual_rate_history-20110323.pdf

132
Robert McIntyre and T.D. Coo Nguyen, “The Gap Between Statutory and Real Corporate Tax Rates,”
Multinational Monitor
, 25:11 (2005),
http://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate_welfare/real_tax_rates_plummet.php
; Donald Barlett and James

Steele, “Tax Time: Are Corporations Paying Their Share?” What Went Wrong? (April 16, 2011),
http://americawhatwentwrong.org/story/taxes-and-corporations/
; Barry Ritholtz, “Corporate Tax Rates, Then and Now,”
The Big Picture
(April 14, 2011),
www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/04/corporate-tax-rates-then-and-now/
; Eric Toder, “Is the Corporate Tax Going Away?”
Christian Science Monitor
(April 27, 2011),
www.csmonitor.com/Business/Tax-VOX/2011/0427/Is-the-corporate-tax-going-away

133
Joe Feagin, “Toward and Integrated Theory of Systemic Racism,” in
The Changing Terrain of Race and Ethnicity
, eds., Maria Krysan and Amanda E. Lewis (NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004), 213–214.

134
Massey and Denton, 1993: 31; also Oliver and Shapiro, 1996.

135
David M. Kennedy
, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945
(Oxford, 1999).

136
Dena Roth, “It's Not the Diversity Stupid: The Case for Affirmative Action,”
The Current
(December 2005),
www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/roth.html
; “The GI Bill Was Affirmative Action for Poor Whites”
The Devil's Advocate
(October 7, 2010),
http://dissention.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/the-gi-bill-was-affirmative-action-for-poor-whites/
; Ira Katznelson, “When Affirmative Action Was White,” (Poverty and Race Research Action Council,
Poverty and Race
, March/April, 2006),
www.prrac.org/full_text.php?text_id=1065&item_id=9751&newsletter_id=86&header=Race+%2F+Racism

137
John J. Siegfried,
Better Living Through Economics
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010), p. 131; Bridgette Baldwin, “Stratification of the Welfare Poor: Intersections of Gender, Race, and ‘Worthiness' in Poverty Discourse and Policy,”
The Modern American
(Spring 2010);
http://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=tma
; and

Kenneth Neubeck and Noel Cazenave
, Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card Against America's Poor
(NY: Routledge, 2002).

138
DeNavas-Walt, Proctor and Smith, 2010: 44, Tables B-2 and B-3, pp. 62, 68.

139
www.nottoway.com/html/nottoway-plantation-history.htm
; and M.R. Ailenroc,
The White Castle of Louisiana,
www.amazon.com/White-Castle-Lousiana-M-Ailenroc/dp/B003SH0DV8

140
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracero_Program

141
http://cprr.org/Museum/Chinese_Laborers.html
; Christopher Clark and Nancy Hewitt, Herbert Gutman and the American Social History Project.
Who Built America? Working People and the Nation's History to 1877
(St. Martin's Press: 2008).

142
Sacramento Observer
(August 11, 2004),
www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-99959704.html
(which notes

an anticipated annual consumer clout for blacks of around $965 billion by 2009, up from $723 billion at the time of the article), and Ollie A. Johnson III and Karin L. Stanford, eds.,
Black Political Organizations in the Post–Civil Rights Era
(Rutgers University Press, 2002), p. 167 (which notes that only about 7 percent of African American purchases are directed to black owned businesses).

143
Sarah Lawrence and Jeremy Travis,
The New Landscape of Imprisonment: Mapping America's Prison Expansion
(Washington, DC: Urban Institute, April 2004),
www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/410994_mapping_prisons.pdf
; Christian Smith-Socaris, “Prisoners of the Census: How the Incarcerated Are Counted Distorts Our Politics” (Progressive States Network, September 14, 2009),
www.progressivestates.org/news/dispatch/prisoners-the-census-how-the-incarcerated-are-counted-distorts-our-politics

144
Michael Hudson,
Merchants of Misery: How Corporate America Profits from Poverty
(Common Courage Press: 1996),
www.amazon.com/Merchants-Misery-Corporate-America-Profits/dp/1567510825/ref=tmm_pap_title_0

145
“Special Report: Banking on Misery – Citigroup, Wall Street and the Fleecing of the South,”
Facing South
51 (June 5, 2003).

146
Historic information on redlining can be found in Massey and Denton, 1993: 31.

147
Derrick Henry and Janet Roberts, “Long Island Foreclosures Rise, With No End In Sight,”
New York Times
(May 13, 2009),
www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/nyregion/long-island/17mortli.html?pagewanted=all
; Courtney Allen, “Foreclosures 40% Higher in Long Island,”
Foreclosure Warehouse.com
www.foreclosurewarehouse.com/content/foreclosures/foreclosure-rates/foreclosures-40-higher-in-long-island/
; Heather Hill Cernoc, “One in 10 NYC Mortgages Seriously Delinquent,”
DSNews.com
(June 28, 2011),
www.dsnews.com/articles/one-in-10-nyc-mortgages-seriously-delinquent-2011-06-28
. For additional information on the spread of the foreclosure crisis : “Foreclosure Crisis Worsens in Most U.S. Metros,”
Fox News.com
(October 28, 2010),
www.foxnews.com/us/2010/10/28/foreclosure-crisis-worsens-metros/

148
Martin Gilens, “‘Race Coding' and White Opposition to Welfare,”
American Political Science Review
(1996), 593–595; Alberto Alesina, Edward Glaeser, and Bruce Sacerdote,
Why Doesn't the U.S. Have a European-Style Welfare State?
(Harvard Institute of Economic Research, Discussion Paper No. 1933, November 2001),
http://post.economics.harvard.edu/hier/2001papers/2001list.html

149
www.amazon.com/Why-Americans-Hate-Welfare-Communication/dp/0226293653/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1249928092&sr=1-1

150
www.amazon.com/Color-Welfare-Racism-Undermined-Poverty/dp/0195101227/ref=pd_sim_b_2

151
www.amazon.com/Welfare-Racism-Playing-Against-Americas/dp/0415923417/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1249928165&sr=1-1

152
Alesina, Glaeser and Sacerdote, 2001:133.

153
John Aidan Byrne, “U.S. Firms Hoarding $2 Trillion,”
New York Post
(August 6, 2011),
www.nypost.com/p/news/business/hoarding_cash_Yzfk2c8aK1wAPrZCRdEVnJ
; Rich Blake and Dahlia Fahmy, “Hoarding, Not Hiring Corporations Stockpile Mountains of Cash,”
ABC News
(April 1, 2010),
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/hoarding-hiring-corporations-stockpile-mountain-cash/story?id=10250559
; Ben Casselman and Justin Lahart, “Companies Shun Investment, Hoard Cash,”
Wall Street Journal
(September 17, 2011),
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903927204576574720017009568.html

154
Catherine Rampell, “Corporate Profits Were the Highest on Record Last Quarter,”
New York Times
(November 23, 2010),
www.nytimes.com/2010/11/24/business/economy/24econ.html

155
“Since 2009, 88 Percent of Income Growth Went to Corporate Profits, Just One Percent Went to

Wages,”
Think Progress.org
(June 30, 2011),
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/06/30/258388/corporate-profits-recovery/

156
Sam Stein, “Florida GOP Debate: Newt Gingrich Blasts 99ers Over Unemployment Insurance,”
Huffington Post.com
(September 22, 2011),
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22/florida-gop-debate-newt-gingrich-99ers-unemmployed_n_977059.html
. For an additional conservative critique of unemployment benefits: Alan Pyke, “Rep. Steve King: Unemployment Benefits Have Created ‘A Nation of Slackers,'”

Political Correction
(September 16, 2011),
http://politicalcorrection.org/blog/201109160005

157
“Rick Santelli's Shout Heard 'Round the World,”
CNBC.com
(February 22, 2009),
www.cnbc.com/id/29283701/Rick_Santelli_s_Shout_Heard_Round_the_World
; Eric Etheridge, “Rick Santelli: Tea Party Time,”
New York Times Opinionator
(February 20, 2009),

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/rick-santelli-tea-party-time/
; Paul Bedard, “Rick Santelli Gets Credit for Tea Party Movement,”
U.S. News and World Report
(January 25, 2010),

www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2010/01/25/rick-santelli-gets-credit-for-tea-party-movement