The Secrets That Those Who Own Everything Don’t Want Us To Know

When I was in high school, we never learned much about working people and the middle class. What we DID learn was that “these rich white guys did this” and “these rich white guys did that.” Turns out, us common folk made a ton of history all on our own.

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Jun 20, 2013

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