{"id":3164,"date":"2012-04-19T13:22:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T18:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=3164"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:51:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:51:29","slug":"tavis-smiley-cornel-west-on-the-rich-and-the-rest-of-us-a-poverty-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=3164","title":{"rendered":"Tavis Smiley &#038; Cornel West on &#8220;The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/\">Democracy NOw!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"450\" height=\"259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2tKxK9ZC0AY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>DemocracyNow.org &#8211; The latest census data shows nearly one in two Americans, or 150 million people, have fallen into poverty \u2014 or could be classified as low income. We&#8217;re joined by Dr. Cornel West and Tavis Smiley, who continue their efforts to spark a national dialogue on the poverty crisis with the new book, &#8220;The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto.&#8221; Smiley, an award-winning TV and radio broadcaster, says President Obama has failed to properly tackle poverty. &#8220;There seems to be a bipartisan consensus in Washington that the poor just don&#8217;t matter. President Obama is a part of that,&#8221; Smiley says. &#8220;I take nothing away from his push on healthcare, but jobs for every American should have been priority number one.&#8221; West, a professor of religion and African American studies at Princeton University, says that after the historic U.S. struggles against monarchy, slavery and institutionalized racism, &#8220;the issue today is oligarchy. Poverty is the new slavery, oligarchs are the new kings \u2014 the new heads of this structure of domination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The second part of this discussion can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=3222\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Democracy NOw! DemocracyNow.org &#8211; The latest census data shows nearly one in two Americans, or 150 million people, have fallen into poverty \u2014 or could be classified as low income. We&#8217;re joined by Dr. Cornel West and Tavis Smiley, who continue their efforts to spark a national dialogue on the poverty crisis with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79],"tags":[670,876,425,878,879,124,875],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3164"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7128,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions\/7128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}