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1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 01:47 PM Jun 2015

I was doing my daily google and came across this (X-Posted from the AA Group) ...

http://financialjuneteenth.com/yale-professor-says-african-americans-economic-disadvantage-is-the-social-justice-issue-of-our-time/

And it occurred to me ... as so often is the case, when Black folks and white folks talk about economic justice, we are talking about two very different things. For white people talk about economic justice, and please correct me if I have this wrong, they are talking about parity between economic classes (i.e., the 1%); whereas, Black folks are referencing intra-class parity (which is a social issue) AND, to a lesser degree, extra-class parity.

I think this is the disconnect I sense in the economic primacy message.
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