Since when is prosperity for all a "white" issue?

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12. People are responding to historic trends

Historically, when there have been "prosperity for all" movements, they have favored white people, and in fact in some cases (such as The New Deal and the VA Bill) people of color were specifically and intentionally kept from accessing those "prosperity for all" movements. I don't think it's surprising if some people of color are now skeptical of anything like that. It's possible that they hear "prosperity for all" and worry that, without specific discussion of how systemic racism will be kept from affecting those plans, it won't help them, or at least that those plans are really mainly designed to help white people.

Also, wealthy people of color also suffer from racism, and it sounds like (from what I've seen people complain about here at DU) they can get frustrated when racism is always discussed as an economic issue, or for that matter as a crime issue. Not all people of color are poor or in jail. What about their experiences of racism?

Having said that, I know a number of people of color here where I live who voted for Bernie in the MI primary, and he took our county handily and our county is very racially diverse. I don't think the feelings I mention above are across the board, but I've heard them both at DU and in "real life." Overall, the people of color I know in "real life" (LOL don't know how else to explain it) during our primary seemed largely to not particularly like either candidate. I voted for Bernie but I do hear what my friends who are people of color are saying and I respect it. All you really have to do is listen to what people are saying. They're not shy about explaining their reasons for feeling this way.