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In reply to the discussion: 9 Ways FDR's 'New Deal' Purposely Excluded Blacks [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Look, I agree with you(and am confident that anyone here would also agree with you)that we need to make sure no one is left out in the cold by a new economic justice program.
Do you truly think anyone now who works for economic justice would want women, or POC, or LGBTQ people, or anyone else in the 99% to be left out? That we would WANT economic justice to be whites-only?
Do you not think we'd want as many working-class folks and jobless folks, regardless of identity, to be included in those programs, in order to make sure they had the broadest base of popular support possible?
I personally am all for whatever affirmative action language is needed to win your trust on this. Would you please post an example, in response to this post, of the wording you would like to see?
You can use this as a way to educate and to build support for what you want and what a lot of us would gladly join you in supporting.
Please take the chance.
OK?