A fundamental misunderstanding of the relationship between economic and social justice.

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57. I cannot agree more with the positions set out at the link

My issue (apart from the fact that the replies to your OP reveal at DU what purport to be discussions of race devolve into arguments which are wholly unrelated to racial justice but instead to which of two former candidates' supporters "care more" about black people), is that we, as a political party, are pursuing none of those issues.

"Economic justice" Democrats are unwilling to demand the kind of economic change that would shift significant power to the black population (e.g., giving back the $60 trillion white people stole from us) because they fear being branded as Marxists. However, avowed "social justice" Democrats refuse to take any stand in favor of the black population that might offend the white suburban voters (the voters they started courting in 1992 with the Criminal Justice Act, the AEDPA, and welfare reform), as they so clearly illustrated when one of their lions in the fight for gender equality (an issue which does play, at least a little bit, in the white suburbs) refused to speak out against -- and, in fact spoke in favor of -- the whitewash of the murder of Michael Brown (a position which does not play at all with white suburban voters).

I vote Democratic 100% because I understand the binary nature of national politics, but when I see people who are in all likelihood white talking about how their side (and I do mean either side) is the one that cares most about racial justice, my response is, "Yeah, right."