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In reply to the discussion: WashPo: Warren just gave the speech that Black Lives Matter activists have been waiting for [View all]Baitball Blogger
(46,697 posts)This is a powerful statement: "Economic justice is not and has never been sufficient to ensure racial justice."
I don't think this contradicts those of us who said that we need to work on both racial and economic justice. The way that I read it, she's just saying that economic justice (as a one strategy approach) is not sufficient to ensure racial justice. The operative word being "sufficient." That means, a broad approach needs to be applied.
It's explained in the next sentence: She points out that the Civil Rights movement fought against the tools of oppression wherever they found it. And one of those tools was, wait for it, economic injustice.
So, isn't she saying, then, that in order to ensure racial justice, we must also tackle the problems with economic injustice since they are all tools of oppression?