Quote Originally Posted by PwrdOn View Post
It doesn't really help that the supposed liberals in this country keep trying to tell us that there is a conflict between economic and social progress, so that we're forced to choose between half-baked fiscal policies that eschew addressing structural problems in favor of just throwing more money into the fire, and meaningless token gestures toward racial equality that have no meaningful benefits for anyone, and ultimately compromise by settling for neither because the alternative is a resetting the clock back to 1850.
So the Civil Right Act and the Voting Rights Act were token gestures? It's not the liberals by the way. minorities often say that social justice is just as, if not more important than economic inequality.
Bernie Sanders was rebuke4d by a lot of Black Leaders for insisting that addressing wealth inequity was a priority over addressing systematic racism.
We need to do both.