Lee’s demagogic comments, citing real social problems in order to ascribe them to race rather than poverty and the fundamental class divisions in society, are what one has come to expect from this well-heeled, reactionary celebrity. He is a prominent representative of a small social layer that has profited while the working class has suffered from the attacks on jobs and living standards over the past 40 years. The issue is not race, but social inequality and its impact on housing. In a city that is home to the greatest number of the world’s millionaires and billionaires, the crisis of affordable housing is a fact of life for vast numbers of workers and young people as well as sections of the relatively better-off middle class. Lee seeks to encourage resentment based on race and pit older residents of neighborhoods against newer ones. This is designed to hide the real issue—the need for affordable housing for all, which cannot be met by the capitalist system and the rule of the super-rich.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 05:16:54 +0000
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