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In reply to the discussion: It would be nice if the centrists in this party did some introspection, too. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)and that Bernie is saying we should support, that is AGAINST what women, African-Americans, and LGBTQ people want?
I haven't heard any calls for the party to be LESS antiracist, or less antisexist, or less pro-LGBTQ.
To me, connecting with working-class voters is about reducing unjust concentration of wealth at the top and returning it to ALL working-class people. To be working for justice for the victims of mass layoffs and outsourcing(many of whom are black, Latinx, women and LGBTQ) and for something
How, to your mind, is THAT whites-only?
And if that sounds whites-only to you, is there a way to frame it that would NOT sound like that?
Or, for that matter, how do we wipe out grassroots and institutional racism without addressing economic justice? Economic justice can't end those things by itself, but haven't the last thirty-six years made a pretty persuasive case that a country run entirely on market economics simply can't BE a non-racist country?
The idea is to get to justice for all.
We can't do that unless we talk about class as well as race.