Scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Applauds Sanders for Activating 'Typically Invisible'

[Uncle Joe]

Multiracial Coalition With 'Class Warfare' Campaign

Scholar and activist Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Tuesday argued that Sen. Bernie Sanders' strong standing in the 2020 Democratic presidential race is attributable to his success in mobilizing a multiracial coalition of working class people who are often rendered invisible by the corporate media and political establishment.

"Neither the Democratic Party establishment nor the mainstream media really understand his campaign," Taylor, assistant professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University, wrote in the New York Times Tuesday. "That's because it disregards conventional wisdom in politics today—tax cuts for the elite and corporations and public-private partnerships to finance healthcare, education, housing, and other public services."

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"This has meant its support for Mr. Sanders's candidacy has been hard to register in the mainstream coverage of the Democratic race," Taylor wrote. "Mr. Sanders has reached the typically invisible, downwardly mobile working class with his language of 'class warfare.' He has tapped into the anger and bitterness coursing through the lives of regular people."

"Without cynicism or the typical racist explanations that blame African-Americans and Latino immigrants for their own financial hardship, Mr. Sanders blames capitalism," Taylor added. "His demands for a redistribution of wealth from the top to the rest of society and universal, government-backed programs have resonated with the forgotten residents of the country."


https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/10/scholar-keeanga-yamahtta-taylor-applauds-sanders-activating-typically-invisible

[guillaumeb]

1. "the working class", and "capitalism"?

This sounds like socialism.

Because we all know how well capitalism works....

for the capitalists.

[Uncle Joe]

3. It's amazing to me how much power that our nation's citizens; enthralled to corporate supremacy

have ceded to having un-regulated overlords, of course it didn't happen overnight but more as a slow devolution from "We the People" to corporate welfare.

[guillaumeb]

4. Indeed.

This country started a revolution against a monarch, and has no problem with allowing the rich to take the control previously exercised by that monarch.

Like the supposed freedom to choose our own bad corporate healthcare plan.

[Fresh_Start]

2. ignoring those who actually are typically invisible

the homeless, those with physical or mental disabilities, children, caretakers most typically women for care for the elderly or those with disabilities.

i've seen so many interviews with the working class...and pretty much none with the truly invisible

[zentrum]

5. Love Bernie!

[Scurrilous]

6. 'Blame capitalism' and calls for redistribution of wealth resonates with Latino immigrants?

That's funny!

[JoeOtterbein]

7. Bernie is...

...the coolest!

[Uncle Joe]

8. Socrates?

[JoeOtterbein]

9. Ha! No. Just a keyboard...

...Philosopher!

LOL! Have fun tonight Uncle Joe!

[Uncle Joe]

10. You as well Joe.