[Peace-discuss] Race & class

[John W.]

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:32 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:

 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."
>


Thank God YOU are on the case, Carl !  Thinking about it, I mean.  :-)



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