What is the "hard left"?

[GulfCoast66]

93. OK. you obviously know nothing about sharecropping.

Or racial oppression in the south. But I do because my family participated in the oppression and also fought against it.

The the majority of sharecroppers were white. White share croppers were considered poor white trash. I am old enough to remember my grandfather calling whites 'croppers' as an insult. But black share croppers were considered elite rural blacks. And that should tell you something. Because most Blacks were farm hands living in quarters really not much changed from slave days. You really think southern whites would give many blacks the ability to manage their land without direct supervision, which croppers could do? Hell, in he 1927 flood, Mississippi called out the militia to keep black farm hands from fleeing to the north where they could find better jobs. Oh, but not jobs basking in FDR's workers paradise. The jobs they were given were not as safe, good or well paying as the jobs as whites had. Even in the Auto industry there was a pay differential between blacks and whites. Mainly the types of jobs blacks were eligible for.

If a upper middle class white guy from the south can school you on racial history in the south, wait till some of our African American members get going on you.

Take your shit about increasing the wealth level for all people and shove it up your privileged modern refrigerator. And I notice you have not once mentioned LBJ who really improved the lives of African American. Simple oversight?

FDR 'Progressive' Democrats oppressed African Americans as much as Southern republicans do today. More actually. I know because I saw a little of it and my father grew up with it.


If you want to make social justice a minor plank of the Democratic platform you will lose the true base of our party...African Americans. Plus a few privileged whites like me.

Have a nice evening