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More African Americans join occupy movement
Since the inception of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City on Sept. 17, the effort has spread across the globe. However, while people are protesting in record numbers against the war, the rich and the “system”, the African-American community has had a low turnout within the movement.
“African Americans don’t see how the marches apply to them,” said David Ford, 25, a District resident. “You look around the crowd [and] it’s mostly young white people with their iPods and iPads, and they think it’s for them.”
Meanwhile, the drum beats changed somewhat on Sunday in the nation’s capital when activist Dr. Cornel West along with R&B singers Boosty Collins and Raheem Devaughn joined the movement for the District’s statehood at Freedom Plaza in Northwest, where African Americans turned out enmasse to hear speakers state their concerns on topics that ranged from corporate greed to bringing the troops home.
