2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Supporters - Please read my post [View all]DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)something I read about in a college history class. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois fought over this very issue. Booker T. did not think Blacks would do well until they took over the tradesman class, while Dubois wanted to churn out Lawyers and Academics. The sad fact is, both were right, you needed people to help ensure the laws were written and the peotic sentiments appealed to (Dubois) and people who made sure the Blacks had representation in the trades and shopkeepers (Booker T.)
and one thing I would to like to clarify, by no means am I saying that we need to wait until minorities get more wealthy before attacking the civil front. What I am saying is that the civil front will need money to protect it. Look at the 1964 Civil rights act. It is being attacked by people with MONEY, thwe Koches and their ilk. The only thing keeping it from being washed out is the fact that they know that if they go too fast, all P. Diddy has to do is say something like "the folks that make Dixie Cups helped pay the people that do not want us to vote." Watch what happens if the Koches had to explain why they do not the Civil Rights act to stay..hell they ran on that platform back in 1980. I will tell you what, they will try to ingore it, till no one, especially those "white friends" always looking to use their wallets to prove their credibility, stop buying Dixie cups.