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Historian of civil rights movement here. The idea that the fate of poor/working class white and black people are linked and integral to any durable movement toward economic and racial justice is a core idea of the black freedom movement, and the black radical tradition broadly.
By standards of todays progressive "anti-racist" concern trolls, Hubert Harrison, Phillip Randolph, MLK, Bayard Rustin, Semptima Clarke, Ella Baker, list goes on - would have been found wanting, insufficiently woke, (clutches pearls), for "tolerating" racism, which they did not.
Condaleeza Rice enlisted the civil rights movement in service of Iraq War "democracy promotion," Obama made it about himself, HRC used it to argue against breaking up big banks, now Bernie was somehow sympathetic to segregationists. A thoroughly degraded discourse: don't buy it.
Don't doubt for minute either, if Bernie wins the nomination, the discourse will flip and it will be about how he is too concerned about black and brown people at the expense of working-class white people. (With a little he's "anti-Semitic" thrown in). And again, don't be fooled.
Running through the black radical tradition is a no less clear-eyed view of the durability and manipulability of racist division and its capacity to undermine, if not destroy radical/progressive coalitions. The error is to see this as given, rather than a changeable condition.
One of my favorite Frederick Douglass quotes, which could have easily been written by his contemporary, Karl Marx.pic.twitter.com/mXtUwYSMxV
Jack O'Dell, recently passed was the person I knew best who exemplified the historical arc + radical politics of post-WWII black freedom struggle. His critical reflections on Jesse Jackson/Rainbow Coalition just as the DLC took charge are words to live by: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520274549/climbin-jacobs-ladder …pic.twitter.com/M1spmHCxj1
And for the last of this thread, @RevDrBarber, one of the most cogent and important contemporary exponents: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/rev-william-barber-on-the-political-power-of-poor-people.html …pic.twitter.com/NuDQV31ZHT
Can you say a little more about why they would've been found insufficiently woke?
To even suggest that poor white people might be motivated/shaped even by circumstances of economic precarity is now often framed as apology for racism. King's universalist insistence: "our struggle is for more than the rights of Negroes" - would be judged harshly, as naive.
If you showed people Abram Harris or Ralph Bunche's critiques of Du Bois from the 1930s but covered the authors' names, people would say their critiques are white Marxism. We've inherited such a tremendously constricted view of the intellectual scope of the movement.
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