Re: "racism divides working people from each other"... [View all]

...I believe it is critical for us to remind the white liberals and leftists - who are basically the only people who perpetuate this meme - that the division only goes one way. It's not working people of color who have consistently sided with the wealthiest Americans against the interests of both people of color as well as the common people more broadly.

The racial divide within the working class is entirely the result of white racism and efforts to uphold white supremacy. Workers of color have always been pushing for their inclusion within the Anerican labor movement and other movements of working people. And white workers have quite consistently and deliberately excluded workers of color from participation in working class political movements. So much for working class "solidarity".

The almost exclusively white voices who lambast how the wealthy classes "divide us against one another" and "distract us from pushing for economic justice" have no business calling for working class unity against the "1%" when it is their community - the white community - who have been entirely responsible for the race-based divides and interracial tensions within the Anerican working class.

My message to these white liberals: Make sure that your own house is in order before you go around criticizing others for supposedly sowing "division" among liberal-minded people.