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

[Ken Burch]

103. It's not just white men who work in the Rust Belt

Plenty of people of color, including the majority of people of color who are women, have been screwn over by the post-1981 economic changes. They would benefit from economic justice program, too.

Also, it's really demagogic to imply that a working-class white person is going to be driven by racism more than anything else. How does it help to work from that assumption? What chance does assuming that give us of ever breaking the backlash cycle? How do we ever end social oppression if we DON'T break that cycle?

I agree that we always need to be vigilant about anything that could exclude historically oppressed communities-but how does acting like no one who proposes economic justice programs can ever be trusted not to be indifferent to racism and sexism aid in that goal? What good comes of basically just saying "you're NOT on our side!" to anyone who talks about income inequality, mass layoffs, outsourcing, or corporate greed? Is there no way to be vigilant but still give people at least some benefit of the doubt, and at least not acting like none of the have listened to what's been said so far and incorporated the critiques in what they propose?

And do rank-and-file economic justice advocates-not talking about Bernie on this, but the kind of folks who organized against TPP and were part of Occupy truly deserve to continually be told "you STILL don't get it!" in response to issues like this?

Finally, with the federal civil rights laws we have, how would it even be possible to create federal economic justice policies that were white males-only?