Where did the idea come from that support for a second New Deal means support for Jim Crow?

[Ken Burch]

72. OK, modernize it-but that doesn't have to mean settling for smaller programs

of smaller ambition.

A second New Deal wouldn't be exactly like the original. It would be non-exclusive, it would have take historic oppression into consideration.

The most important thing in the idea of a second New Deal is that it would focus on coming as close as possible to ending both want and fear of falling into want-this is important to reducing white backlash, because since the mid-60s, white backlash has been fed, especially in the North, by the belief that any economic gain, any improvement at all in the condition of people of color somehow has to mean that white people will lose ground.

In addition, the need to end want matters for all, because all of us are part of the economy and are affected by inequities within it-and in the case of women, LGBTQ people, and people of color affected more deeply by the interaction between greed and bigotry.

And if people are in any sense on the progressive side of the spectrum, they can be assumed to be at significantly aware of our country's racial history or easily brought up to speed on anything they need to know about it but haven't yet been taught.

There simply isn't a huge dividing line between people working for "social justice" and people working for "economic justice"-all essentially agree on the agenda.