But Lurk is right when he says it is about poverty and money. We can frame it as a race issue, but that doesn't help get things solved because clearly as a society we can't handle framing things as a race issue anymore. That moniker is used and abused and toxic. The facts of the matter are that it is always poor people getting screwed over and it is always rich people getting away with crime. There is no fairness and so there is anger and animosity.
Framing every issue as a race or gender issue only ensures that a solution will never be found amidst the bickering. That's the tactic.
Dunno which shows you were listening or what topics they were talking about but Rep. King gave them a big excuse to talk about race in at least one context.
Radio Times, The Takeaway, and 1A. Any issue they talk about, they frame it through race and gender issues and they haven't been able to have a proper discussion on anything. I'm not suggesting that they need to stop framing issues this way. What I am suggesting is that perhaps you start to poison the well beyond a certain point and that it is worthwhile to look at other issues. The issue of poverty is touched on, but only ever as a race or gender issue. You'd think there were no poor white people the way they talk on these shows. And by neglecting that aspect of poverty makes it easy to frame it all up and blame it on race.
It's dumb and unhealthy.
