'It's going to take a lot of white people. We need white people right now, to do the work. We need white people to organize themselves and do that kind of work.'
White people need to organize and have open conversations about race in order to disempower President Donald Trump and achieve economic justice, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in a new interview for Pod Save America.
Gallup polling conducted in June showed 23 percent of Americans thought of immigration as"the most important problem," behind only"government," which 26 percent of Americans agreed was a more important problem to be solved. More than three-quarters of Americans believe immigration is good for the country, but a significant minority, 35 percent, believe immigration levels should be reduced, according to the poll.
"One of the things we need to do is really dismantle this idea that it's either race issues or class issues," Ocasio-Cortez responded."We need to learn to talk about this intersectionally. It's going to take a lot of white people. We need white people right now, to do the work. We need white people to organize themselves and do that kind of work."
"There's a reason Donald Trump is using racism as a cudgel, because it's how he gets away with his corruption. That's how he steals the bag," Ocasio-Cortez said."He's going to use racism. The reason he's trying to center issues of race, of immigration, etc. is to sink the economic agenda. He's trying to eclipse it. And the only reason that has power is because we refuse to talk about.
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