![]() ![]() ![]() This is no accident racism was built into the US economic system. Today, more than half a century after the civil rights movement, the racial wealth gap is just as large. The key message here is: Racism is inextricably woven into – and reinforced by – systems of power. ![]() The truth is, race is one of the largest variables determining your success in the United States – a point that often goes unacknowledged. So she started directly asking people: “Why do you think Black people are poor? Do you think it’s for the same reasons white people are poor?” If you improved things for the lower classes, they argued, things would improve for minorities.Īuthor Ijeoma Oluo found herself exhausted from constantly having this debate – after all, the injustices that keep an able-bodied Black woman poor are not the same as those that keep a disabled white man poor. They felt the Left had been too focused on the needs of Black people, Latinx people, women in general, and trans people while leaving out working class white men. ![]() After Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, many people speculated that the Democratic Party had lost because America’s societal problem was about class, not race. ![]()
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