Why Liberals Separate Race from Class

[Catherina]

88. Don't get me started

I'm so focused on getting Sanders elected, otherwise all we're going to get is more lip service, that I'm not wasting my time even reading the posts of people who haven't been on the same side for any important issues, especially when they try to confuse the terminology and facts. The time for discussion was yesterday. Today is action and change. The hope and wait part is so yesterday.





Original on file at Birmingham Public Library

And I love how the same people who have a vested economic interest in keeping poor people divided over *attitudes*, dismiss brother after brother and sister after sister as *radicals*. "Oh they don't represent the majority" "They're fringe" "No one in the Black community pays attention to Cornel West or Tavis or blah blah blah". Well hah, poor people are rising up under our noses and all this talk that racism and economic injustice don't go hand in hand is to keep us separated like people can't smell the same old bullshit.

You remember right here, for the 2008 elections, we had some PUMA, overtly racist prolific Clinton supporter here for months telling us how we should be grateful and kissing her ass or go back to mopping floors? And not a single moderator would delete her vile shit. Not a single Clinton supporter would call her on it, they just pretended they didn't see it and when called on it with direct links, they either disappeared for a while or explained it away. Even when you wrote to the mods with direct quotes after the alers failed, her posts remained. I sent Skinner a very upset note I was that mad and to do him credit, he tombstoned her right then and there and sent me a really nice note apologizing we were subjected to that and letting me know he got rid of her. Go back to mopping floors my ass. Be grateful my ass.

I think this is what is scaring the status quo more than anything. There's been a class war going on for decades racism is just a sideline they use to divide and conquer, to obscure what's really going on and deceive people by playing on their fears. Socioeconomic status is the largest factor in racial injustice, poverty, joblessness, imprisonment, lack of healthcare, but they don't want us talking about it because we might unite. The Black voting bloc might back Sanders instead and be their worst nightmare since Martin Luther King started talking about workers rights for all colors and travelled to Memphis to support a LABOR strike by Black sanitation workers and organized the Poor People's March a few weeks before they decided enough was enough with all that socialist talk and gunned him down.

Brother Cornel West, who's treated like a rock star on the streets where the direct actions are taking place against racial injustice, just endorsed Sanders with the explicit caveat that

“I’m not a Hillary Clinton fan at all,” he said resolutely. “So if he uses his power to hand it over to her I’ll be deeply upset.”

The Clinton camp tried the race card in 2007-2008. That failed miserably and backfired spectacularly. Now they're trying to play the opposite race card and just as clumsily too. Helllloooo! Think people are that dumb?

Mopping floors. Carrying bags. Attitudes. Change hearts instead of economics. Got it.

KISS MY BLACK ASS (not you of course, the oppressors trying to keep us divided)

Tim Russert told me that, according to his sources, Bill Clinton, in an effort to secure an endorsement for Hillary from Ted Kennedy, said to Kennedy, “A few years ago, this guy would have been carrying our bags.”

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/09/10/lets-be-friends