I don't know if I'm a devil or an angel around here right now.

[Garrett78]

49. The economic disparity is enabled by racism, sexism and xenophobia.

If you address the latter, you address the former. There would be little support for right wing economic policy were it not for bigotry. In fact, the Republican Party would cease to be viable were we to magically wake up in a world without racism, sexism and xenophobia. Bigotry is the tie that binds, and we must fight it at every turn.

As Dr. King said, "Injustice anywhere is a thread to justice everywhere." Just as those rich folks you mentioned want less disparity because political stability is at stake, we should all want less disparity (in terms of wealth, criminal justice, medical care, housing, etc.) between white folks and persons of color.

I'll add something I wrote in another thread:

Democrats already do better than Republicans among the working class. In saying Democrats shouldn't go out of their way to appeal to *white* working class men, the point isn't to denigrate that subset of the population. The point is that the Democratic Party platform should already appeal to the working class. And, for the most part, it does, based on exit polls following every election.

Why speak specifically of *white* working class folks? We all know why. Either it's because there's this assumption that only white people work (horribly racist and obviously false), or it's because a certain portion of *white* working class folks are voting based on factors that have nothing to do with candidate positions on wage stagnation, workplace safety, health care, equal pay, paid family leave and all of the other issues that should matter to the working class. If that's the case, and I think we all know that it is, what do you suggest Democratic candidates do?

Should Democratic candidates not talk about criminal injustice, the race-based "War on Drugs," race-based voter suppression, a path to citizenship and the fact that US policy has been a driver of immigration all around the world, a woman's right to choose, a culture that suggests sexual assault is tolerable, and so on? If not talking about those things, or - worse - taking the opposite position is what it will take to win over a certain subset of the population, then that's just too bad. Get on board with Democrats or lose, because ultimately "the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice."