re: #802 Occasional Reader

” Obama does speak positively of “redistributive change,” but he doesn’t describe its absence as a tragedy. In fact, what Obama actually said was that “one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was that the civil rights movement became so court-focused.” It is a focus on the courts that Obama says is tragic, not the lack of redistribution of wealth. Had the movement engaged in more traditional politicking and organizing, he said, it might have been able to achieve more on that front.”