We have three dominant classes in contemporary America:

We have the poor and outcast…

We have a slipping working class that considers itself middle class.

And we have powerful, and often greedy, Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats.

Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats dominate our political, economic and cultural systems.

Powerful words tweeted by Cornel West on December 10, 2010. Follow him @CornelWest

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