Posted on 02/08/2016 4:08:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Black poverty is fundamentally distinct from white poverty--and so cannot be addressed without grappling with racism.
There have been a number of useful entries in the weeks since Senator Bernie Sanders declared himself against reparations. Perhaps the most clarifying comes from Cedric Johnson in a piece entitled, "An Open Letter To Ta-Nehisi Coates And The Liberals Who Love Him." Johnson's essay offers those of us interested in the problem of white supremacy and the question of economic class the chance to tease out how, and where, these two problems intersect. In Johnson's rendition, racism, in and of itself, holds limited explanatory power when looking at the socio-economic problems which beset African Americans. "We continue to reach for old modes of analysis in the face of a changed world," writes Johnson. "One where blackness is still derogated but anti-black racism is not the principal determinant of material conditions and economic mobility for many African Americans."
Johnson goes on to classify racism among other varieties of -isms whose primary purpose is "to advance exploitation on terms that are most favorable to investor class interests." From this perspective, the absence of specific anti-racist solutions from Bernie Sanders, as well as his rejection of reparations, make sense. By Johnson's lights, racism is a secondary concern, and to the extent that it is a concern at all, it is weapon deployed to advance the interest of a plutocratic minority....
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Well, Whites have committed mass suicide in the form of Economic Suicide: It’s called diversity and racial quotas.
These will be the death of the West, and with it the deaths of morality, competence, science, etc.
No doubt, however, if everyone raised in such an environment was given a platform to spew their perspective on race, we’d be in an even bigger mess. Jmho.
I hear you.
White people: the un-racists.
Not doing something stupid with race beats out doing something stupid with race, all hollow.
The demon rats have made a very lucrative business out of poverty beginning with lyndon johnson and it continues today and is a monster sucking at the trough of the AMERICAN TAXPAYER. They have even created a black plantation owners society to over see this criminal op. The message is continue to blame the white population for not doing enough and being racist to this day no matter how much money we siphon from them
Of course they’ll move there and then say, “ya know, the only problem here is that everyone’s too conservative” and then they’ll start voting in liberals.
No.
It's not.
And Ta-Nehisi Coates is a bitter, twisted racist for saying it is.
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