The Upper Middle Class Basis of Identity Politics: Black Bourgeoisie

Part of identity politics is to repress the existence of social class differences within races and genders. This article shows that there are now 35,000 black millionaires in the United States. The income inequality between the black upper middle class and the average black household is 200-1. This is larger than the same demographic between white households. What the article doesn’t say is that it is the black upper middle class is voting for Hillary.

Read in the WSWS

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About Bruce Lerro

Bruce Lerro has taught for 25 years as an adjunct college professor of psychology at Golden Gate University, Dominican University and Diablo Valley College. He has applied a Vygotskian socio-historical perspective to his five books: "From Earth-Spirits to Sky-Gods: the Socio-ecological Origins of Monotheism, Individualism and Hyper-Abstract Reasoning", "Power in Eden: The Emergence of Gender Hierarchies in the Ancient World" (co-authored with Christopher Chase-Dunn), "Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present", "Lucifer's Labyrinth: Individualism, Hyper-Abstract Thinking and the Process of Becoming Civilized", and "The Magickal Enchantment of Materialism: Why Marxists Need Neopaganism". He is also a representational artist specializing in pen-and-ink drawings. Bruce is a libertarian communist and lives in Olympia, WA.

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