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#23 Whose America?, pt. 2: Inner City Blues

The Martyr Made Podcast

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The Rise and Fall of the Community Organizer

Many people first heard the term community organizer when Barack Obama ran for president in 2008 because he used to do that. The federal government was pumping oceans of money into the cities and figuring out how to get your hands on that money became a cottage industry. A huge amount of it went to every kind of scam artist, criminal organization, and radical militant group that you can imagine. Even worse, this money that was meant to cool things down in the ghetto very often went right to the groups actively working to precipitate the violence.

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