And it goes without saying that as a person of color AND a Muslim, Keith(let it go about the typo-i was in a hurry and made a trivial mistake) will fight just as hard against voter disenfranchisement as Perez, if not harder. All of us are equally committed to fighting against that and to getting the base re-registered and able to vote again. It's just that I believe Keith will change how the party fights elections and Perez will keep things exactly the same on that and privilege the views of the big donors.
BTW, Bernie always paid attention to voters of color and it's bullshit to say he "prefer(s) higher income white male voters"
nothing in Bernie's program ever put rich white people before people of color...single-payer healthcare and free college would have disproportionately benefited low-income voters AND voters of color). There was NO actual difference between Hillary and Bernie on the need to fight institutional bigotry, there was just inadequate communication to communities of color from Bernie's campaign.
Before 2015, there was no massive division between the social justice and economic justice movements. There hadn't been for decades. The only reason such a division was created in 2015 was that it served the interests of the party establishment to fabricate one in the name of nominating their preferred candidate.
2015 is over. So is 2016.
The imaginary social justice/economic justice division needs to be seen as the toxic lie it always was.
Nobody ever called for the fight for social justice to be set aside in the name of achieving economic justice, and the struggle for economic justice was never a threat to the struggle for social justice. We need to unite in BOTH justice struggles, fighting for justice for all-which does NOT mean one-size-fits-all proposals or a refusal to address historic oppression, and which never meant that.
We need unity and renewal...and we can only get that with a DNC chair equally committed to both sets of justice issues.
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