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In reply to the discussion: 9 Ways FDR's 'New Deal' Purposely Excluded Blacks [View all]cprise
(8,445 posts)"Will of the people" segue to "Most white people", and the assumption that change in one area must follow others in tandem or else have no causal relationship at all.
Very disingenuous.
Whenever the idea and language of fairness spreads in society, it causes a sea change across the board. It creates opportunities to demonstrate hypocrisy and discrimination along other fault lines.
The left has long concerned itself with the 'socio-economic' nature of inequality. But what I'm seeing in some of these reactions is that economic elites (indeed, even your "wealthy Blacks" are the ones responsible for racial equality. Its a very odd thing, considering how insistently leaders of the civil rights movement railed against liberal elite attitudes and the same tendency for denial you're displaying here.
So you want radical change, but insist on leaders who have made it their life's work to prevent anything so drastic.
MLK died while trying to advance the cause of a labor union, just weeks after inveighing against capitalism. It really is some epic, revisionist denial.
The fallacy underpinning that denial is represented by: Whites shifted towards racist politicians in the late 20th century, therefore the pro-labor left ignored or abandoned non-white people.
Obviously, you missed the part about Obama being portrayed as a tax and spend redistribution-ist. Many whites were just reacting to Obama (and Gore and Clinton before him) the way any better-off demographic might have. Was race more of a factor? I have no doubt it was, but the way you put it is absurd.
But seriously, lets just forget that racial equality is connected to anything else except the ability to make and spend money unharassed, as one sees fit. We could redefine yet another strange "white" cause, environmentalism, as against the interests of well-off black folk--another manifestation of racist repression. And BTW, hispanics, Muslims, native Americans, gays, etc. can all line up to get their little footnotes in this grand, dualistic struggle (someday, when BLM can stop choking on any labels not their own).