1/ I’m gonna need all Dems (not just Bernie) to explain their strategy for closing RACIAL wealth and health gaps, independent of class gaps. Because even lower income whites have better health outcomes/more net worth than upper middle class blacks...
2/ ... for instance, median white households headed by high school dropouts have 1/3 more wealth than black households headed by college grads....
3/ Black women with college degrees, health care access and who had regular checkups while pregnant have worse health outcomes for themselves and offspring than white women who dropped out of high school and have spotty coverage and had NO checkups while pregnant...
4/ black kids from middle to upper middle income families are more likely to attend high poverty k-12 schools than white kids who actually live in poverty...
5/ and they are more likely to be expelled or suspended by teachers than poor white kids, despite similar rates of school infractions across racial lines...
6/ the point being ANY democrat who thinks economic uplift and class based equity policy is sufficient as anti-racism policy or to address racial inequity is either woefully ignorant or afraid to tell the truth for fear of offending white voters. Either way, unacceptable ..
7 btw, footnotes and references for these claims are all in my book Colorblind, as well as my last book Under the Affluence. I dont have them memorized but anyone who cares can take the time to look them up...
