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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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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@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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Lol. If you attributed that quote to Bernie Sanders, Neera Tanden would retweet it as evidence that Bernie is a white supremacist.
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Precisely.
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