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I believe in ways you are right. For one, once our leaders started working with the politicians and got them past and employment with the government became readily available, most of the constituents left the movement and went to work. Soon that is all that it was and the movement itself stopped moving forward... since then the government became the leading employer of Nubians until this day. Starting with the 80s the numbers slowly started to dwindle, until today there are massive cutbacks in Federal, State, and Local government, taking the same jobs which were given to placate the movement and place masses of Nubians out of work.
The numbers for unemployment only reflect nationwide unemployment and not the effect that it has on the Nubian community, especially in the urban districts where it affects us the most
Even though it might be common that each race usually stays with their own, we need a more solid foundation as the Black Power movement had in the 70s, and become more isolated as some parts of Philly in the earlier era
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