this is where you lose everybody. let’s focus on one problem at a time, address it, move on to the next. next you’ll somehow tie the green new deal to all of this i suspect. smh
Justice isn’t just about ending police brutality. It’s also about addressing the denial of wealth building over centuries.https://twitter.com/TheProspect/status/1273280491462856705 …
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"Lose everybody"? Are you trying to make a virtue of small, fragmented thinking? Can you cross a chasm with a baby step?
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Could you please reference what you consider to be the best writing regarding the feasibility of systemic reparations aimed at addressing the legacy of racism (and settler colonialism too?) ? Thank you.
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Here in Central Ohio,
@DarrickHamilton has written about reparations. Also worth a read is the following article regarding@Blklivesmatter & the question of identity-based vs universalist frames for justicehttps://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/10/adolph-reed-blm-racism-capitalism-labor …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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(1) Indeed, systemic racism is about more than police violence. How are the systemic issues to be addressed? How are racism and classism related? Universalist programs for downward redistribution of wealth would disproportionately help BIPOC while having white working and middle
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(2) class support. Compare the benefits of improved access the healthcare, job training, education, housing, and other amenities with a reparations program for black folk in the US. In the unlikely event reparations would become law and politicians decided to spend
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(3) $1 trillion on the program, that would be about $24,000 to each of the approximately 44 million African Americans. Many black folk probably would prefer better access to the amenities conducive to their physical and mental wellbeing such as education, housing, healthcare,
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(4) an end to police brutality, an end to environmental racism...etc. Most, if not all of those public amenities would involve universalist programs and thereby have broad popular support & be resistant to racist attempts to dismantle them. Race reductionism serves neoliberalism
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