The Re-Enslavement of Black People in America from the Civil War to World War II

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26. Remember the "economic justice v social justice" argument during the campaign?

I'm not trying to re-fight the primary but one side argued that economic justice would fix all social ills but more knowing ones on the other side knew that social justice had to be fought for just as hard as there are malevolent forces within society that block social justice — vote suppression, hiring/job discrimination, housing/mortgage redlining, police racial profiling/killings, POCs charged higher rates for insurance/services, and on and on and on and on.

The New Deal of the 1930s was a perfect example of economic justice (for whites), but did nothing to fight social justice, in fact, it left black people out in the cold.

This historic example is why the "knowing ones" on the other side of the argument knew that fighting for economic justice is not enough to avoid black people and other people of color from being left out in the cold and damn near re-enslaved.

You have to fight on both fronts.