Martin Luther King fought equally hard for civil rights and economic equality.

[Ken Burch]

42. The other key to building a true coalition for real structural change, social AND economic,

Is to bring together people of color(the vast majority of whom are working class), working-class whites(who have suffered economically as much as poc have suffered socially and economically in the misery of post-1981 America) LGBTQ people(the majority of whom are still forced to stay in the closet, especially of they are poor or working-class themselves, since hard times always reinforce all forms of bigotry) into the largest possible coalition of people seeking a vastly different vision of life.

This is what Jesse Jackson set out to do in creating the Rainbow Coalition. Yes, the man had his limitations, as does everyone in the political sphere, but the vision of the Rainbow(even though the reverend himself gave into pressure from above and shut the Rainbow down as a mass organization in the early 1990's-the worst tactical mistake he ever made) remains valid, still shows us a path to the future.