Monday, January 15, 2018

"Racial Equality Could Only Be Achieved Through a Combination of Anti-Discrimination Policies and Social-Democratic Economic Policies"

"The horizontal organization of Black Lives Matter ensures a diversity of perspectives among participants and even branches. Nevertheless, the now-commonplace claim at the heart of the recent Black Lives Matter protests against Sanders is that white liberals have long reduced racism to class inequality in order to deflect attention from racial disparities.
"This is not just wrong, but the formulation—which ultimately treats race as unchanging and permanent rather than a product of specific historical and political economic relations—undermines both the cause of racial equality in general and pursuit of equitable treatment in the criminal justice system in particular."

In a 2015 Jacobin article, TourĂ© F. Reed explains "Why Liberals Separate Race from Class."

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