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If I was black and I had a choice between being treated with respect or being solidly middle-class..
I would take RESPECT immediately.
But I think that Bnw's point is that for minorities, one is not more important than the other. They are both deeply intertwined and in many cases ie gay discrimination in the workplace, they are one and the same! And you're right, if it did come down to a choice of having to choose between loving who I wanted and living where I wanted, being able to educate my children in a town of my own choosing or worrying about how many Wall Street bankers will go to jail for their destruction of the American economy, I would wager there would be no contest for the majority of people on this planet. NONE.
It's pretty obvious that alot of the "it's class, not race" folks are people that have never once had to wonder if their race, gender or sexual orientation have played a part in their economic conditions. And that type of privileged idiocy is one of the many reasons they don't have a leg to stand on and never have.
I would take RESPECT immediately.
But I think that Bnw's point is that for minorities, one is not more important than the other. They are both deeply intertwined and in many cases ie gay discrimination in the workplace, they are one and the same! And you're right, if it did come down to a choice of having to choose between loving who I wanted and living where I wanted, being able to educate my children in a town of my own choosing or worrying about how many Wall Street bankers will go to jail for their destruction of the American economy, I would wager there would be no contest for the majority of people on this planet. NONE.
It's pretty obvious that alot of the "it's class, not race" folks are people that have never once had to wonder if their race, gender or sexual orientation have played a part in their economic conditions. And that type of privileged idiocy is one of the many reasons they don't have a leg to stand on and never have.
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