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

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107. No, it's not too much to ask

But part of that requires people be willing to examine the extent to which their political priorities are shaped by their own experiences, which includes class, race, gender, and sexuality.

It would help if people would stop insulting those whose priorities differ, particularly when they are concerned about the struggles of the subaltern. It would also help if people who stop hearkening back to some ideal past of the Democratic party, when the part in fact supported Jim Crow at the time. Look forward, not back. History can be instructive. Unfortunately, many people are far too selective in their use of it, likely because they were taught very conservative approaches to political history--the great man version that focuses on presidents and the like to the exclusion of people's movements.