2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Just a question. (Update: Origin) Where did the idea originate that Bernie Sanders [View all]Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)That is the only outrageous claim being made. Not as outrageous as a claim that some want racial inequality eliminated before economic inequality is fixed. No one is saying that!
Racial inequality is not a symptom of economic inequality, it is mostly the other way round. Racial inequality all on it's own and is not just economic. Just ask any black parent who has had to have The Talk that white folk are privileged not to have to do.
Just ask anyone thrown into a slave ship in the Gold Coast.
I say without a shadow of personal doubt or hesitation that the issues must be discussed together. Not only that, if they are discussed together it will only strengthen the overall argument for both!
Separating the issues is a great disservice to people of color and not of color.
Having to shout it out in protest is how folks without the money to buy free speech, coincidentally the same folks doing the shouting and subject to racial and economic inequality, have to do it to get any attention these days.