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[Ken Burch]

29. If you're talking about the 1930's yes, I agree with you.

In that era, that was Southern Democrats insisting on that and it was despicable.

In the Fifties and Sixties that was parts of the labor movement. And THEY were wrong.

But that view doesn't reflect where grassroots economic justice advocates have been since at least the Seventies, though(the New Left never had that contradiction).

And the vast majority, the prohibitive majority of us who have been part of the economic justice movement have repeatedly condemned the handful of people who argued that class mattered and race didn't. That wasn't ever what we as a group were about.
The people who did say such things were idiots(and if I ever said anything that sounded like that's what I felt, it's not what I meant and I apologize for even sounding like that).


I respect your historical experience and acknowledge the past, but what, exactly, do you need to see from economic justice supporters(more than a few of whom are people of color) that that isn't where we are now and that you could at least consider trusting us?

We aren't in the primaries now...can't we take the next four years to have actual dialog on this rather than an endless repetition of talking points from last spring? We need each other.