most strongly supported economic justice won. We feel that her plans were more practical and more likely to result in the economic changes that we all want.

Second, the way to show African American people that you will make sure the needs of historically oppressed communities are never subordinated is to not ignore or dismiss the words of African American people. Don't say that they do not understand the issues well enough to see your enlightened point. Don't say that they are working against their own interests which implies that you understand their interests better than they do. Don't say or imply they are victims of Stockholm Syndrome. Don't say or imply that social issues should be subverted to economic issues, or that dealing with economic issues will solve social issues when POCs tell you, over and over again, that this is simply not true.

Don't say "we need to find ways of showing you." The fact is that AA's don't need to be shown anything. Those who did the above things, those who feel they "need to find ways of showing" AA people how to agree with them, need to fundamentally change the way they look at this problem.

that this OP seems to think it is speaking for "those of us in the economic justice movement."

I wonder what they think they have accomplished that constitutes a "movement."

And I wonder if they really think that giving themself the title of "movement" gives them the right to require explanations from large segments of the population.

After complaining for months and years about the democratic party not bEing liberal enough ?

The economic justice coalition won, it just isn't what you are accustomed to seeing.

You claim to understand the histories of oppression that shape us, I'll add you and the nation. You cannot keep saying "you," "you," "you," as if to remove yourself from the oppression. And fail to understand that this has been a huge contributing factor to the downfall within the movement time and time again, that that candidate surprisingly manifested all these years later.

I suggest that you start by studying as far back as the abolitionists to that candidate, and you'll figure out how we've been left out in the cold. Early threads in this forum starting last summer on that candidate and the whole movement is a good place to start.

I think you've answered your own questions in the OP but, for some reason, reasoning stops when it comes to POC though all the answers are there.

Your question seems to speak to the idea of placing other issues under the umbrella of economic justice and thereby creating a coalition of people that fight multiple injustices but are united by economics. I fundamentally reject the premise that we are united by economic injustice. I reject the idea that racial injustice must be seen through the lens of economic injustice. This notion has it backwards. The only revolutionary fight worth having is one that eradicates racial injustice. Economic populism is not new. It is not revolutionary. The country has been down that road many times. It always fails. Why? Because we continue to avoid dealing with the real problem - race. From the days when both black and white indentured servants were brought onto the killing fields we eventually came to call the United States of America, those in power knew (and still know) that race and is the most effective tool of marginalization and disempowerment.

You want economic justice, then the the real fight is for racial justice. Economic injustice must be seen through the lens of race. You eliminate the racial hierarchy and the class hierarchy falls down with it. Capitalism feeds on racism. It constructed "race," which has no biological meaning, to sustain itself. No politician who promotes an economic justice movement without leading FIRST with race will ever get my support. And certainly not one who was part of the civil rights movement and therefore knows better. Certainly not one who threw away the opportunity to teach a younger generation that which it is naive to. What has happened in 2016 is not simply wrongheaded but actually dangerous to the plight of POC. Many young people believe a colorblind myth about economic injustice. If there is to be any kind of coalition building, we need to replace these mythologies with truth and those who consider themselves to be allies of POC need to get real about race and privilege. Collective accountability begins with personal accountability.

Support for Clinton and what she has done over the years.

Just like support for Obama over Clinton had nothing to do with feelings towards Clinton but rather about support for obama.