2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This primary solidified the Log-Cabinization of the Social Left [View all]Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Of course other groups than white males suffer from economic disadvantages. What people have been saying for year here is that one-size fits all solutions that historically only benefit one group do not address the issues you raise in your OP.
Perfect example, gentrification. Oakland and other parts of the Bay Area have raised their minimum wages, something I worked toward too. However, gentrification is still happening, as you note.
Cities don't even record data on evictions and move-outs from rent hikes by race--those of us who see it happening know it is a racial issue. The organizers I work with know it is a racial issue. But we cannot even try to make a case of a civil rights issue because the data is never collected.
What jobs program, raise waging, expanding SS is going to stop people of color from getting evicted? To keep this gentrification from erasing the racial component by no systemic way to track it?
When people here have tried to point these things out they get called vagina voters and now crack smokers. Please take your intersectional self down to a neighbor and call them those things for supporting Hillary and then report the results back to us.