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Erin Heaney and Steve Phillips on Working Class Voters and the Democratic Party
Erin Heaney and Steve Phillips, both of the advocacy group the White Stripe Project, talked about efforts to attract white working-class voters back to the Democratic Party by discussing issues of equity and race.
Starts at the 30min mark.
I told them I’m a proud Democrat in the style of FDR and JFK. I talked about the loss of millions of jobs from the steel and auto industry that have yet to be replaced. The destruction of historical statues of great men like Christopher Columbus, and Andrew Jackson, but no destruction of statues of Africans like Mansa Musa or other Africans and Native Americans that owned slaves. How slavery was a worldwide issue. I talked about how people like Mansa Musa and Andrew Jackson were men of their times, and we should respect them. They may have owned slaves, but they were men of their times, and they built things. They were men of honor and integrity.
One very important point I brought up which was brought up by Robert Kennedy Junior… is how the average price of a home in America has gone from $200,000 during Trumps time in office to $400,000 under Biden…That should be a core issue the Democrat party tackles today. But they keep trying to race bait us.
I talked about the fact that we have millions of white people and Black people who are either homeless or living in poverty, and their struggle is the same thing. Of how so many democrats today are trying to divide us by race.
And the response from one of the panel members, a fellow American citizen from my city Buffalo was kind of unfortunate. She did not really talk about homeless white people. She went on about so-called race struggle in America, and she said something that is largely not accurate. Of how “union households across Buffalo blamed Black people for the loss of steel jobs”
Well I come from a Union household that is not how we thought. That is not how my white friends and family members think about these issues. We know that those jobs were shipped overseas due to Republicans and Democrats not caring about the country. And caring about corporate profit over middle class jobs in America.
The next caller Dee from Maryland said that she supported me and about 90% of my views that was really awesome. She also criticized the Democrats of today and she talked about how huge numbers of African-Americans are now trending towards the republican party
So what is it going to be for my fellow Democrats. We need to stop this race division. It is terrible. It makes absolutely no sense as slavery was a worldwide issue. Black people owned slaves. And there are millions of white people who are living in poverty, or who are homeless going through the same struggle as an impoverished or homeless black person. So come on to my fellow Democrats step it up. Bring back the party of FDR and JFK.
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