I concluded from a Left point of view years ago that affirmative
action programs only fan the flames of racism, and do very little to
correct it. Nevertheless it is disturbing to my sense of justice that
all of a sudden NO black faces are appearing on the campuses of the
" better " colleges ".
The problem as I see it this : Working class whites were paying the
bill for these affirmative action programs . Our capitalist society
demands a ground down, low wage " nigger " class. Affirmative action
programs simply declassed many working class whites. As a result racial
relations deteriorated.
Many grievances of blacks - which seem like mere paranoia from the
perspective of RACE- make perfect sense from the perspective of CLASS.
Jesse Jackson had the right idea all along - a " rainbow coalition "
of the WORKING CLASS - is the key to effectively fighting essentially
CLASS oppression.
If the rich are getting fabulously richer - and show no sign that
they give a thought to social justice- this means that there are no
moral or ethical ties that bind the social classes together in a unified
society with some COMMON PURPOSE.
This bleak truth should be reflected in the political activity of the
working class.
We should let the well-heeled folks know that there social order
is no more unsinkable than the Titanic. ( their order )
CLASS POLITICS should be the wave of the future in the U.S.A.
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