If the Democratic Party decides to ignore the concerns of minority voters to get white 'Rust Belt'

[JCanete]

97. Maybe some people who don't really get both the practical implications of that, or what

message that would send to minorities in our party, want that. I don't think that's representative of most of us, and in spite of efforts to paint it as such, it is not was Sanders said recently, nor is it indicative of how he campaigned, or of his career in office. The economic message really is not, and should not be separated from issues of civil rights, and because it is a message that is saying, lets go take stuff back from the people who actually took it and have it, it isn't unintentionally triggering people on loss avoidance terms who think they are going to have to share their dwindling stuff.

An economic message that resonates because it gives us a common cause rather than makes us look suspiciously at one another, should not come, nor does it have to come, before calls of social justice. If somebody said it did, I would agree that there's no damn reason for people who have been screwed over and over by promises in the past, to trust such an agenda.

But it should be said the economic policies themselves, if focused not at just bettering the lives of the middle class, but of the poor, and funding schools over prisons, and free college tuition for all, and investment into city infrastructure, etc. would in-and-of-themselves do some work to alleviate the unfair burden of stress and insecurity on the backs of minorities in this country. Unloading any part of that burden is huge in giving them the needed bandwidth to not just survive, but to add their energy to fight for social justice. Not having to pay back prohibitive student loans allows people to pursue lower paying careers in the public sector as well, that adds to a collective strength taking on inequality and poverty, etc.

Bottom line though, there's no reason to be quiet about social justice while also promoting economic justice, because the right economic message short-circuits the programming that freaks white middle class people out about social justice, and gives us an opportunity to start rewiring.