African American

seems unable to see that inequality due to race and gender is the very weapon with which the rich maintain economic inequality. You will not get rid of economic inequality until you have solved the problem of racial and gender injustice. The rich are kept in power by white men and women, who gladly vote against their own economic interests because they prioritize keeping African Americans and women in subjugation - it makes white men and women feel better about themselves if they can know that at least they are better than 'them'. Men feel better if they can make sure women cannot be on equal footing as them, hence the abortion issue, because reproductive freedom is the linchpin of women's liberation, and white people feel better if African Americans are constantly being brought back to square one economically through police shootings, discriminatory hiring practices, putting obstacles in the way of all African American children in the form of worse schools, less representation in the media, and so on. The rich get a twofer - not only are white men and women easier to control when they fan racism, but they also get an added economic bonus - it's easier to keep wages down if they have a slave wage class who cannot crawl out of poverty thanks to the lack of civil rights.

That means that the only way forward is by working on civil rights issues. Only when white men and women realize that women and minorities deserve the same as them (us) will we be able to work towards economic justice.