The oldest 1% trick in the book

[Chitown Kev]

59. Yes, it is NOT that POC are not strongly for economic justice

it's that most prioritize it differently (and I might say, equally, but I can only speak for myself w/r/t that) simply because we have to.

Yes, some black people benefited from The New Deal. But a helluva lot more white people benefitted from he New Deal because of the way that The New Deal was set up and administered. And often, white people benefited from The New Deal at the expense of similarily situated black people (e.g. you didn't hear a whole lot of bellyaching about AFDC until black mothers still mired in poverty became the face of that program in the late 50's/early 60's)

And while the G.I. Bill was not, strictly speaking, a New Deal program, it did start under FDR and it was mostly white people that benefited from it; there were many blacks that were eligible to use it that were turned away.

So, no, black people (and other people of color, quite frankly) cannot allow the assumption that a rising economic tide will life all boats on an equal basis.