Kamala Harris "I am not for reparations to the black community"
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Fuck man she is an awful communicator. Not everyone is cutout for the milquetoast neoliberal vernacular. 

I actually agree with what she’s ultimately saying- a rising tide lifts all boats. But the means tested tax credit bullshit has to go- her heart isn’t in it she needs to just allow herself to provide a proper class conscious driven solution. 

And if she insists on playing this game I think it could actually be a benefit for the left. Jump on her mistakes and force her to overcorrect. 
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The government gave out a 2-3 time stimulus check during a world altering pandemic roughly $2.5k per person on average factoring in dependent bonuses.

Politicians and the US public in general acted as though the government was handing out enough to buy Cadillacs.

The current administration tried to hand out 10k of college debt relief, and conservatives fanned all their feathers and believed the sky was falling, and many liberals, even here on reddit suggested 0% interest as a better, alternative option. The fact is, in these spaces, we live in an echo chamber. The things we want and deeply believe in just are not felt by the vast majority that have been indoctrinated from birth by the capitalist system.

To offer black people specifically reparations on a national stage is simply political suicide and ignores the bigger picture beyond race as one commenter here put it; a rising tide lifts all boats. The white/brown/black working class is just as disparaged by the capitalist system. When you categorize relief by skin color, you only give fascists more ammo, and continue to perpetuate the idea of race, that there are subcategories of humanity. There are none. The public needs to recognize that this struggle is very much the proletariat v. the bourgeoisie.

We MUST acknowledge the struggles that black Americans face in this country, addressing police violence and general discrimination at every turn. We also NEED to elevate class consciousness simultaneously. To elevate leftist ideals, we have to take what we can get.

Purity testing gets us nowhere fast, and the accelerationist idea that encourages the election of fascists like Trump always fail to account for the millions that will suffer in it's wake.

Kamala isn't the second coming of Marx, but if she's good enough for AOC, she's good enough for me. Minimize damage, and reinvigorate the Occupy movement is where every American leftist should be in my opinion.
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