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...addition, Katz claims that "The all volunteer force is a sham, since economic factors have forced the poorer, Blacker sections of America to sign up in disproportionately high numbers." In The Salient I also mentioned that today's military requires that almost all recruits have a high school diploma or its equivalent, which excludes from the military nearly three quarters of the Black men who used to apply, along with many other poor people. The armed forces draw the bulk of their strength neither from an exploited underclass nor from the generally hedonistic upper classes, but from the lower-middle...
...color to die in the Arabian desert. George Bush and the rest of the rich white men in policy-making positions have no problem sending Blacks to kill browns for the benefit of whites. The all-volunteer force is a sham, since economic factors have forced the poorer, Blacker sections of America to sign up in disproportionately high numbers. As in Vietnam, the body bags will again carry home the remains of the politically disempowered underclass...
...Blacker had recently been elected a trustee of the Mount Auburn Hospital...
Born in Roxbury, Blacker's earned two degrees from Radcliffe College--a bachelor's in political theory and comparative government and a master of arts in teaching. In the 1950s she worked as a professional for the American Girl Scout Association and the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston...
...Blacker was active in the civil rights movement as a member of the Belmont Fair Practices Committee, which worked to integrate housing. She also organized an integrated Roxbury-Belmont summer day camp...