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In reply to the discussion: No other candidate in this race has been as strong of an advocate for racial justice as Bernie has [View all]Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)Bernie calls for body cameras on police, community policing, and investigations into wrong doing by officers.
And yes, he calls for economic changes as well because economic justice is social justice. The reason that we have such problems with racism in this country is because in the early part of this country's history slave owners pushed the lie that blacks were less than human so they could ecomomically exploit them. After slavery ended blacks were pushed into segregated communities with few job opportunities that paid a decent wage so many blacks were forced into unemployment or working minimum wage jobs thàt do not pay the bills and the economic exploitation continued.
This leads to poverty, poverty leads to desperation, desperation leads to crime, crime leads to more aggressive police tactics, and more aggressive police tactics lead to innocent people being killed.
Economic injustice is the root cause of racism and bringing jobs and economic opportunity to the inner city is essential to achieving racial equality.
Economic justice and social justice are not two seperate issues, you can not have social justice without economic justice or vice versa.