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In reply to the discussion: They Dared Me to Post This... [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,020 posts)I also think your heart overrides your thinking here, much of social justice is not directly achievable through the political process, more than people want to admit is subjective judgments that allows a majority group - think to resist and pervert civic equality while placing on the back burner the means and opportunity to push forward and fight back.
In many cases justice like everything else takes resources resources unavailable when way too many are just treading water and many that manage to swim doing what they can to keep others from going under.
Being on the margins and crossing the lines to hustle putting one in a far greater chance of getting caught up into an adversarial system by structure and a hostile one to the disadvantaged and excluded by malicious design to enslave, dehumanize, extract, and break minds, hopes, faith, families, and spirits counts big to me.
Inability to escape the system's gravity well of fines, interruption of work, transportation fiascos, being on the radar, and loss of opportunity being branded a criminal or especially a felon mean something too.
Living in an area that is targeted for extraction and and grinding under the heel greatly magnifies the opportunity for police interactions and for them to dangerously hostile.
Who does it profit to pretend the vast majority of black folks catching beatings and bullets or in jail are not the poorest, the working poor, and the barely hanging on working class?
Yes, money and class always matters and no we don't ever get full benefit of class status but to reduce that benefit to insignificant is crassly dishonest.
There is no buying parity with whites all else being equal but that still leaves one a far cry certainly than another person of color all else being equal and many or even most whites too.