Thom Hartman joins number of white progressives slamming those criticizing #BLM

[JDPriestly]

68. Thanks for reading my post and for your response.

My rambling is about the fact that the reason the movement for African-American rights was successful to the extent that it was in the past is that we had a strong liberal coalition in Congress and a president in the White House (actually two -- Eisenhower and LBJ) who were willing and able (with the support of a majority of liberals in the Supreme Court and in Congress) to pass and enforce decisions and laws that moved African-American rights forward.

I agree totally with the justice stance of BLM. I like the reading of the names. That should be done at very Democratic rally this year.

But I think that the strategy of further dividing the liberal coalition that made Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Act, the coalition that was divided by passage of the Civil Rights Act is weakened. And BLM threatens to weaken it.

What brought that coalition in the 1950s and 1960s together was the emphasis of FDR and LBJ on economic justice.

The BLM movement is right that their cause is urgent. But to improve things, we have to have a very strong liberal majority in the nation. And we can't get that unless we speak to the economic misery of so many Americans of all races. Thus, our coalition must be strong and it must be built on the basis of economic as well as social and environmental justice.

I'm talking strategy. It's complicated. But it is important.