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

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128. Bella Abzug was a co-sponsor of The Equality Act in 1978 I think it was. The Equality Act was the

first and actually better form of what we now call ENDA. Employment Non Discrimination Act. This was the first piece of 'pro gay' legislation offered in the US Congress and it is of course a jobs issue, purely economic objectives being sought. As you might know, ENDA has not passed both houses of any Congress. Bella is dead, so's Ed Koch her co-sponsor. So's ENDA.
So the thing is, when straight white folks want to preach about these issues, they need to do so mindfully and fully informed. I'd be really impressed with a straight white person pressing to pass ENDA, I've never seen one of them in the wild aside from Senator Merkely.
So we don't see y'all pushing for equality for say, the last 40 years give or take, but we do see these posts in which you try to tell us all about what we have been doing for the last 40 years or so.

Read this speech of Harvey's. Know that 'CDC' means California Democratic Committee, not Centers for Disease Control. Jarvis-Gann is Prop 13, about property taxes.
"What we must do is make sure that 1978 continues the movement that is really happening that the media don't want you to know about. That is the movement to the left. It's up to CDC to put the pressures on Sacramento--but to break down the walls and the barriers so the movement to the left continues and progress continues in the nation. We have before us coming up several issues we must speak out on. Probably the most important issue outside the Briggs--which we will come to--but we do know what will take place this June. We know there's an issue on the ballot called Jarvis-Gann. We hear the taxpayers talk about it on both sides. But what you don't hear is that it's probably the most racist issue on the ballot in a long time. In the city and county of San Francisco, if it passes and we indeed have to lay off people, who will they be? The last in, and the first in, and who are the last in but the minorities? Jarvis-Gann is a racist issue. We must address that issue. We must not talk away from it. We must not allow them to talk about the money it's going to save, because look at who's going to save the money and who's going to get hurt.

We also have another issue that we've started in some of the north counties and I hope in some of the south counties it continues. In San Francisco elections we're asking--at least we hope to ask-- that the U.S. government put pressure on the closing of the South African consulate. That must happen. There is a major difference between an embassy in Washington which is a diplomatic bureau. and a consulate in major cities. A consulate is there for one reason only -- to promote business, economic gains, tourism, investment. And every time you have business going to South Africa, you're promoting a regime that's offensive."
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