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In reply to the discussion: What is the "hard left"? [View all]GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)is that racism is at its core is economic oppression.
And in my opinion this is the heart of the divisions in the Democratic Party. Some of us know it is impossible to achieve the economic equity we all want without dealing with historical racism in the country. Others seem to want to pretend they 2 are not two sides of the same coin.
I remember driving through the delta to visit my grandparents and seeing African American living in shacks on the side of the road with outhouses and looking they could fall down anytime. They were not basking in FDR's economic paradise.
I remember when lots of whites in the South had house ------- ,yard ------ cooks and Nannies and they sure as hell were not living in FDR's paradise. Oh, and the people they worked for were good FDR democrats.
So when many of we Democrats, especially those of us from the south hear 'progressives' carry on about economic reform and then, in our opinion, poo-poo social justice concerns with a parting sentence about how, yeah, we support that too some of us get concerned. Because we have seen it before. The fact is that most of FDR's reforms left American American in the past.
My dad left the rural south because he could not stand the injustice African Americans were undergoing.