Tavis Smiley rails against the ‘blinders of greed’: Poverty a societal crisis
With reports of poverty reaching its highest level since 1965, CBS News contributor Tavis Smiley on Sunday compared the growing wealth inequality to slavery in the United States.
“Throughout American history there have been proud moments of revolution that forced the elite to remove their blinders of greed, tyranny and domination,” he said. “America has, of course, made great strides for freedom in regard to all of its citizens. But now America has regressed, and poverty is the new slavery.”
Smiley said that U.S. economic policies favored the wealthy and ignored the plight of the poor.
“Poverty threatens our democracy, a
