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.
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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.
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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.
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One of my favorite Frederick Douglass quotes, which could have easily been written by his contemporary, Karl Marx.pic.twitter.com/mXtUwYSMxV
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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
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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
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You should write this into more than a twitter thread.
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