2016 Postmortem

uponit7771

(90,301 posts) Wed Mar 23, 2016, 06:47 AM Mar 2016

QUESTION: Have there been many national level progressive movements that were racially homogeneous?

The notion of mostly homogeneous anything and progressive seems counter no?

your take?

tia

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QUESTION: Have there been many national level progressive movements that were racially homogeneous? (Original Post) uponit7771 Mar 2016 OP

The labor movement was pretty much white men... Human101948 Mar 2016 #1

Those were of non establishment people, what is Sanders movement now? tia uponit7771 Mar 2016 #2

Oh, you were making a statement... Human101948 Mar 2016 #3

Aren't progressives, by definition, non-establishment people? surrealAmerican Mar 2016 #4

"Progressives" have included Calvin Coolidge and Strom Thurmond Recursion Mar 2016 #6

Populism comes to mind (nt) Recursion Mar 2016 #5

First old Jewish white man movement ever. mmonk Mar 2016 #7

Human101948

(3,457 posts)

1. The labor movement was pretty much white men...

Reply to uponit7771 (Original post)

Wed Mar 23, 2016, 06:53 AM

Mar 2016

The Pullman Porters were pretty much black.

http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?p=1,7,1,1,41

Suffragettes were pretty much women

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette

uponit7771

(90,301 posts)

2. Those were of non establishment people, what is Sanders movement now? tia

Reply to Human101948 (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 23, 2016, 06:55 AM

Mar 2016

Human101948

(3,457 posts)

3. Oh, you were making a statement...

Reply to uponit7771 (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 23, 2016, 06:58 AM

Mar 2016

I thought it was a serious question.

surrealAmerican

(11,357 posts)

4. Aren't progressives, by definition, non-establishment people?

Reply to uponit7771 (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 23, 2016, 07:01 AM

Mar 2016

There have been very few movements that were not "mostly homogeneous".

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

6. "Progressives" have included Calvin Coolidge and Strom Thurmond

Reply to surrealAmerican (Reply #4)

Wed Mar 23, 2016, 07:05 AM

Mar 2016

So, no

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

5. Populism comes to mind (nt)

Reply to uponit7771 (Original post)

Wed Mar 23, 2016, 07:04 AM

Mar 2016

mmonk

(52,589 posts)

7. First old Jewish white man movement ever.

Reply to uponit7771 (Original post)

Wed Mar 23, 2016, 07:25 AM

Mar 2016

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