Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Sanders failed to draw a critical percentage of black and Hispanic voters away from Clinton in the primaries... but perhaps more importantly it's because his platform couldn’t address their unique concerns without subsuming race and racism in the class rhetoric of "democratic socialism." This much is clear: For a lasting movement to rise from the ashes of the Sanders campaign, it would have to make huge inroads into the establishment’s black base. Creating a movement seriously and convincingly committed to the cause of anti-racism would be a good start. Sanders couldn’t convince black voters that he could offer them more than the establishment. The most common postmortem of the Sanders campaign goes like this: Bernie tore through Iowa and New Hampshire by galvanizing young, disaffected white liberals, but then he hit the South, and there, black voters sank him.
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Progressive movements have to be diverse because Conservatives have allowed their movement to be taken over by racists, bigots, homophobes, and misogynists. Occupy Wall Street was not diverse. The battle against "Stop and Frisk" was black and Latino with some white activists. Reverend Sharpton reached out to the LGBTQ community, realizing that Gay men were targets of "Stop and Frisk". Reverend William Barber, the leader of Moral Mondays a protest against voter suppression that began in North Carolina, led a diverse coalition. Van Jones became a leader in the environmentalist movement because the movement largely ignored the black community.
Occupy Wall Street is an afterthought. "Stop and Frisk" has been largely curtailed. The voter ID law in North Carolina has been halted by an Appeals Court. Progressive activists need to realize that listening to the concerns of diverse groups is critical for success. Blacks, Latinos, and Muslims see the world from a different perspective than many white activists.
by laptoprmrd (not verified) on Sun, 07/31/2016 - 9:35am
Black Lives Matter is reaching out to other ethnicities in its battle against police abuse.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/2c22c9646fd14c68b41fd5cbaada6f56/black-li...
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 07/31/2016 - 1:07pm