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In reply to the discussion: Zuccotti Park has been re-occupied [View all]marions ghost
(19,841 posts)so let us not nitpick each other. While I think you have every right to express your opinion and should, I don't think guilt-producing critical statements about groups who are on our side are very productive right now. I think they are divisive.
What I'm saying about OWS. Let us not alienate those who are on our side. Maybe not always, maybe not the way we'd like. People don't react as strongly to injustice if they don't have a personal grievance. Now the middle-class white kids are looking at joblessness themselves--it's come home. Now they understand. I came from a background of limited means myself, but was thrown with more privileged people in my family and school. They never understood until it hit home--and it did with some later. So I understand exactly where you are coming from, why you feel the way you do. But I think it's time to come together. So your comments give me a chance to say that.
We need every body we can get on our side in this fight. This isn't a case of either/or. (Either Obama or OWS).
This is a case of all who want to see changes. Big changes.