Socialist Progressives

with it. After all, racism (and slavery) didn't exist simply because white Europeans and Americans wanted somebody to 'look down on'. They wanted to, and did, make enormous amounts of money off of treating humans as property. And we still see how racial injustice and social injustice intertwine every single day, with people of colour stuck in poor neighbourhoods near power plants, manufacturing facilities, garbage dumps, toxic waste sites. Economic injustice compounds racial injustice.

Yes, there are (mostly well-off) people on DU who will tell you that talking about economic injustice 'minimizes' racism, but that is a narrow, binary viewpoint of a complex real world. It's not a 'one or the other', and some folks will address one facet of the problem, others another, and some will address as many of the facets as they can.