[Peace-discuss] Race & class

[C. G. Estabrook]

  Is " having some people of color who are rich ... supposed to count as good 
news for all the people of color who are poor?

"The argument for Obama is he’s there, so I can be there too, but all the white 
male presidents we’ve had haven’t done much good for poor Whites, and in a 
country where there’s now declining social mobility (less than in Western 
Europe), it’s hard to take even the traditional solace in the fact that the 
empty claim that anyone can grow up to become President [Reagan proved that] now 
includes Black people.

"None of this will make any difference unless we start thinking about the 
politically relevant question, eliminating the gap between the rich and the poor."

--<http://jacobinmag.com/archive/issue1/wbm.html>