It took Al Jazeera, of all the news organizations, to do a story on what everyone knows, but the mainstream media in the US tries to ignore: the role that racism is playing in the current election:
But even this news piece doesn’t cover the origins of racial tensions in Appalachia, which came about because mining companies successfully pitted black and white workers against each other.
http://halfricanrevolution.blogspot.com/2008/05/via-matt-yglesias-this-pretty-good.html
