My introduction to the politics of Kamala Harris came from the Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP) and other sex worker organizations and activists in the wake of the federal shutdown of Backpage’s adult section in January. Backpage was a website that a number of sex workers used to advertise and screen potential clients. The closure and federal
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They're so harsh in judging democrats, far more so than they ever are in judging republicans, that it gives independents the wrong idea, making them think that the democrats are at least as bad, if not worse than the extremely corrupt republicans.
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There are forms of racism that disproportionately impact poor and working class black people more than middle and upper class black people. For example, studies show that many high-profile police shootings occur in areas with heavy economic inequality gaps. So it's not at all a side concern that black men like Keith Lamont Scott, Terence Crutcher, Philando Castile, Alton Sterling and Sylville Smith were shot and killed by police in areas where the black unemployment rate was anywhere between 2-5 times that of whites and the median income for black households was anywhere between 1/2 to 1/3 that of white households. Poor and working class black people need both economic and racial justice and do not have the luxury of an approach that sees these things as separable.
Anyone who can afford to make that distinction and decide that the two can be neatly separated is likely fine economically, in which case the reason they can treat the issue as separate is because they're privileged in one area of the matter: wealth.
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Poor and working class black people need both economic and racial justice and do not have the luxury of an approach that sees these things as separable.
That's exactly what I'm saying - we need both. It doesn't seem like you really read my comment.
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I'm not talking about you, though. I'm talking about what forces might allow the hypothetical "someone" you mentioned think that police shootings don't have an economic component as well as a racial one.
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