Why are you so *angry*, Manny?

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227. Carlin and Marx

I understand that you don't recognize that the "starting point" for closing the gap of inequality and disparity must be based on class/race analysis equally. But from my experience, when we choose to give priority to one over the other, invariably (nearly 100% of the time) division/divisiveness is immediately created as a direct cause of giving priority to the other.

Our conversation demonstrates my point, making my case. Do you see what I mean?

I'm saying we can't have one without the other.. I'm trying to say that matters of race, gender and class (that is to say, issues of inequality) are the result of the very same construct.

Because I'm a woman, I might try to argue that gender inequality is more important than race or class. after all we've suffered inequality throughout millennium and to this day. And I can hold up history to make that case quite effectively, and we can have a pissing contest to see which group has suffered from the power of the white man more.

Or, we recognize that we share the same "enemy" ... and oh by the way, so does our blue collar white brother. It's the same fucking people who own us, who are making the rules, ripping us off every day of our lives, endlessly lying to us, sending us off to their endless wars and so on.. as George Carlin once put it, it's a Big Club, but You and I aren't in it.

I agree with Carlin and Marx.