You got Nu-Blacks trying to portray Dr. King as an agent, liberals have him as a colorblind moderate, and to the left, he's a class reductionist.🤦🏽♂️
@Marcus_S86 @__treyslay Ch 2, section 3, paragraph 18, from #MLK 's book Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? : "A slogan 'Power for Poor People' would be much more appropriate than 'Black Power.' "
@MaxKindness @Marcus_S86 @__treyslay When he said this, America consisted basically of white people and #ADOS. ALL other groups combined were 0.9% of the population per the 1960 census. Poor people & Black People were 99.1% synonymous. We wrestle power from whites -- choas, or create our own power -- community.
@ReparationsCol1 @Marcus_S86 @__treyslay Check some of the poverty rate & immigration numbers, but setting that aside, we can agree the racial gap in wealth (which differs from income) indicates a lack of progress. But what is it about the rise in immigration that troubles you?
@MaxKindness @ReparationsCol1 @Marcus_S86 @__treyslay Because Immigration historically has been used as a weapon to keep ADOS folk a permanent underclass. Why can't you understand that?
@C91771 @MaxKindness @Marcus_S86 @__treyslay A lot of questions being asked. The one question that's never asked: Gee, why DIDN'T America provide reparative justice to people it had enslaved for 247 yrs? Then just left them homeless. Then made homelessness a crime. They ask, "why you anti-immigrant"?
@ReparationsCol1 @C91771 @Marcus_S86 @__treyslay 2/ assimilation for native-born black folk. There seem elements of that among Asian,Latinx, & Indian & African immigrants. I now see @SandyDarity 's pt about "two complementary tracks," one #ADOS specific, the other universal/class oriented. Class analysis unavoidably must reckon