What good is economic justice, if I don't have the social justice to access and keep it?

[JCanete]

67. pointing out that they are thinking about it wrong is not the problem, nor should you have

gotten that from my post, since I said we need to show them they are being played. I did not at all suggest that it was more important to sympathize with these people, since we are talking about effectively and successfully undoing what has been done. I don't agree that there is a path forward that doesn't break the stranglehold on the message that big money has, and if you don't take on big money, it doesn't matter if white people will soon enough if not already, be the minority...a new way of dividing people on social lines will emerge or resurface, because there is a financial and power oriented incentive to make that happen. If we don't take away some of that power, and just fight our battles at the bottom against the ignorant masses we are going to continue to lose on class and social issues. We are paying no attention to the man behind the curtain.

So yes, of course these attitudes have been nurtured, but what are the power-bases role in that nurturing, and furthermore, what was the underlying agenda? What is the value they see in this? Sure, there are actually racist people and that is so much a part of their identity that it dictates their actions, but more often than not, its mostly about retaining power, and retaining and amassing more wealth. Make them the reason people are suffering and with that, deflate the nonsense people are grasping at to make sense of their world. Give them something that they can imagine actually helping them and they won't need to just lash out at the "culprit." They'll accept this new culprit in its place because there is an actual prize to be had...that's assuming we present such legislation and blame the people who are in the pockets of corporations on those things being blocked.