Why Liberals Separate Race from Class

[Catherina]

11. Of course not, we agree on that

and so does the author, but to focus on race alone, while excluding the economics because the many levels above the most brutally exploited don't what to give up what they "got", is a disservice to fighting racism.

Stokely Carmichael, the genius who coined the term institutional racism and explained it in depth, wrote extensively about this. You can't separate the two because they're joined at the hip. I think you can focus on one or the other at a given time but eventually you end up focusing on the other also. You said it much better "But if you stop taking racism as a given and start thinking about what needs to be done to eliminate it, you immediately come up against the problem of exploitation. "

I don't think we disagree, or the author either, especially in light of your last sentence.