The Poor

The redistribution of wealth from the 1% who have control of most of it to the other 99% who had the biggest share in creating it will benefit the dispossessed across racial lines. If poverty is eliminated, poor people (who come in all colors) with be liberated from deprivation. Only insofar as proportionately ore Blacks than whites are in poverty will it benefit blacks more. But hunger is hunger. How many poor whites would agree to see their children suffer only because to end this suffering means that Black children are also delivered from this suffering. If redistribution of wealth in a cooperative society means the end of unemployment, how many poor and unemployed white workers are going to say "Well if you're going to find work for those blacks too, then I'd prefer to stay uenployed"? Moreover, since progressive reforss will end the tyranny of the 1% over many of the 99% who are educated and middle class, one could argue that here it benefits whites more than blacks. Proportionately, there are fewer educated middle class Blacks like me than there are educated middle class whites. Do you think that I will object to what will improve the lives even of the middle classes just because ore whites--generally being more affluent---will benefit? Providing racial discrimination doesn't come into the picture, I have no objections. Frnakly, I want ot see a lessening of both RACE and CLASS inequality. Any progressive refors leading toward that end will get my vote.


-Savant

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