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Class issues and racial issues intersect. If you skew too far toward class issues, you wind up in class reductionism (the demonstrably false notion that creatin
by banannaise 4y ago
Class issues and racial issues intersect. If you skew too far toward class issues, you wind up in class reductionism (the demonstrably false notion that creating economic equality will solve racism). If you skew too far toward race issues, you get... I'm not sure what the term for it is, but it's essentially trying to achieve racial equality by building up a class of Black entrepreneurs and ignoring everyone else.
An interesting thing I've found (anecdotally) is that corporate and nonprofit efforts for "racial justice" skew very heavily toward the latter, but community aid and grassroots racial justice groups strike much more of a balance.