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Loaded Drone attack: Black communities must take cover

Sherwood Ross  pretty much hits the nail on the head in his first paragraph in a recent submission in  Counterpunch .   "In case you didn't know it, what's called a "recession" in White America is called a "depression" in Black America. During much of last year white unemployment held steady at around 8.8 percent. Down the block, though, it was about 12 per cent for Latinos and in Afro neighborhoods across town it averaged 16 per cent. And as unemployment spiked at 24 percent for white teens last year it hit 45 percent for black teens, according to the Kirwan Institute at Ohio State University". No, this is not Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, or Libya where drones are having a holiday, but it is America where the drones of poverty keep unloading missiles of mass destruction even in a so-called post-racial era.  Since the drones carry weapons they can successfully cause much collateral damage as opposed to liberation and empowerment. What are dro