I really think class warfare is far stronger than any racial divide. And that’s exactly why there isn’t much momentum from any group, white, black, whatever. They’ve pinned us down for so long ensuring that any individual efforts can be punished. Now… how do you get a unified effort so they can’t lock individuals down? That is the question to be answered. General strike? Not if it’s some lame Friday and then back to normal. It’s got to be a shutdown that’s felt by the ones who are the problem, and it has to be outlasted long enough to matter. Can that be done by people living paycheck to paycheck, or by those already missing many weeks of food stamps? The rich hope not.
So sure, there’s the inequality of black vs. white. But it’s far deeper and planned than that, and this kind of arguing is what they want instead of a shared effort.
The racial divide is an aspect of class warfare though. Specifically in the US, so much of White America was willing to throw away/undermine the welfare and public services that they barely had for a generation just because black and brown people would get access to it too. It’s wrong to just skip over that and demand solidarity.
Personally, I think we can embrace people who are late to the game, while also holding space for people who are frustrated that it seems to take a tragedy to activate some members of the populace
I really think class warfare is far stronger than any racial divide. And that’s exactly why there isn’t much momentum from any group, white, black, whatever. They’ve pinned us down for so long ensuring that any individual efforts can be punished. Now… how do you get a unified effort so they can’t lock individuals down? That is the question to be answered. General strike? Not if it’s some lame Friday and then back to normal. It’s got to be a shutdown that’s felt by the ones who are the problem, and it has to be outlasted long enough to matter. Can that be done by people living paycheck to paycheck, or by those already missing many weeks of food stamps? The rich hope not.
So sure, there’s the inequality of black vs. white. But it’s far deeper and planned than that, and this kind of arguing is what they want instead of a shared effort.
The racial divide is an aspect of class warfare though. Specifically in the US, so much of White America was willing to throw away/undermine the welfare and public services that they barely had for a generation just because black and brown people would get access to it too. It’s wrong to just skip over that and demand solidarity.
Personally, I think we can embrace people who are late to the game, while also holding space for people who are frustrated that it seems to take a tragedy to activate some members of the populace