How are we going to "follow them" when conservatives always win elections because people like you are discouraging black people from voting?
What is the so called Black leadership such as the NAACP doing to combat these companies rolling back DEI expect whining and complaining?
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How are we going to "follow them" when conservatives always win elections because people like you are discouraging black people from voting?
Peruvian Connect
All Star
the middle class as a whole is evaporating..... You think the others are gonna let us grow or mintain while they continue to fall? This is not a race issue. It's economics but yall rather fight against people in the same struggle because they got different skintones.
Aht aht! WE made that exact argument multiple times throughout the history of this nation, but other groups —including poor whites— didn’t acknowledge that we were in the same struggle because they CONTINUE to believe their skin tone is better than ours.
So no, our organizations were necessary because they helped create, maintain and protect the Black middle class that many others didn’t want to see.
Peruvian Connect
All Star
The Middle class as a WHOLE is DYING and will soon be dead. If you think that the NAACP can save the black middle class while the rest of the middle class burns, it ain't happening.
Pull Up the Roots
Veteran
You're right that the middle class as a whole has been shrinking, but framing it like race isn't a factor in who gets hit first and who gets hit the hardest as a result of its collapse is where you're misguided. We have always been more vulnerable to economic downturns *because* of policies and practices that have specifically disadvantaged us. We've faced systemic barriers, for generations, that others haven't. From things like redlining, housing and lending discrimination, unequal access to quality education, and more. So, when the broader middle class takes a hit, it doesn't hurt the same. It's why you can't separate race from the class fight.
As far as the NAACP, they aren't trying to save the Black middle class *at the expense* of everyone else. They're just fighting for equitable policies that would have the side effect of helping everyone else, too. Affordable housing, better wages, access to healthcare, and so on, would benefit everyone. But the reality is, if you don't address the racial disparities that already exist, those policies won't work equally. And we'll end up back where we started.
As far as the struggle, it is not exactly the same. Sure, we're all getting crushed, but pretending that a white middle-class family and a Black middle-class family are starting from the same place or is impacted in the same way is naive.
Breh been leaving bread crumps for the feds when he finally goes ballistic.
Voice of Reason
Veteran
Voice of Reason
Veteran
This is the babble of a tether.
I hate to call y’all that but your political thinking is so radically different than ours.
Voice of Reason
Veteran
I was going to quote and say some thoughtful shyt, but you nikkas wouldn't listen, so...to all you shills crying about bothsiders:
You are not capable of writing anything thoughtful.
I will elect to still call you stupid in the Absence of your stupid comment.
Pull Up the Roots
Veteran
This dude is a true scumbag. He gloated about receiving student loan relief, and yet he still pushes this oversimplified bullshyt, after spending the election advocating for Trump.I was going to quote and say some thoughtful shyt, but you nikkas wouldn't listen, so...to all you shills crying about bothsiders:
Got mine. Biden can still eat dikks
Looking at what them nikkas are paying themselves I bet the fukk it is
You still in these threads writing fan fiction hoping nikkas do all this gruesome shyt for you because you know you ain't about to do shyt but keeping typing revolutionary fantasiesMurder under certain situations gets shyt done
posterchild336
Superstar
You are asking about organizations… black people in general have more purchasing power and impact on these companies profits.. what are we doing should be the real question