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Margaret Kimberley On the Housing Crisis: How the Politics is Taken Out of NY Politics
Bill Quigley
16 Jun 2009
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BAR's senior columnist Margaret Kimberley sketches some of the local impact of the foreclosure crisis in New York City, and how , in the age of black governors and mayors and presidents, the politics have effectively been removed from black politics.  The weight and number of black faces in high places has smothered black politics.

 

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