” Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today. “
” What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before. “
” That’s true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated. “
” And I guess what I would say is that we can’t think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can’t necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation. “
” Well of course there’s been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don’t have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer. “
” Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work. “
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