Economics vs. civil rights (BLM and Sanders)

[bklyncowgirl]

2. I thinkthat it is perfectly possible to be in favor of civil rights and yet be a corporatist.

We see this quite often. Look at the ads on TV in which advertisers are careful to show a postracial America that in many areas has little existence in reality. Corporate America has gotten the message--inclusion is good business. Black people buy stuff, gay people buy stuff, women buy stuff.

What corporate America does not want is for ordinary people all races to start to demand a larger share of the economic pie--especially if it means taking it from the investor class. Part of their strategy has been to pit different groups against each other--they're really good at it--they have been doing this since the days Frederick Douglass wrote about the tensions between Irish immigrants and free blacks in New York City and likely before.