Why Liberals Separate Race from Class

[LWolf]

19. I WAS using chrome;

Firefox worked, and I got to read the whole thing.

I have to say, it was well worth it, and I plan to dive back in and read it again.

Of course, as someone older, who remembers a bit about the earlier civil rights movement, this resonated with me. It makes sense to me, where Johnson's assertions did not.

Not that I can claim much; I was a child. I did hear the (white) adults in my family discussing it, and they were in full support.

I want to be open-minded. I want to listen, and give other people the benefit of the doubt for their pov. And, as a caucasion, no matter my experiences with black friends, family, co-workers, neighbors, and other acquaintances, I'm on the outside looking in.

So the disruptions have caused quite a bit of introspection on my part, and that's a good thing. One of the things that I realized is this: I wasn't paying as much attention as I should have been. And that's shameful. It was all at a distance; not liking racial injustices, and wishing they didn't exist, is simply not the same as stepping up to the plate in solidarity. So, for me, the disruptions have served a purpose. I'm paying attention.

That said, I still think that social and economic justice are linked, and need to be addressed at the same time.

One thing from this article that I didn't know, or if I did, had relegated to the cluttered storage closet of my brain, was that earlier civil rights leaders argued for keeping racial and economic justice linked.

Thanks for sharing this!