ontology of class and race? Black class consciousness

[Jim heartfield]

In message <s5a4b80c.079 at ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL
.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes
>Yet, one still wonders why there was  this clear shift of party loyalty by Black 
>people. My first thought is that despite the discriminatory dispensation of the 
>New Deal, Black people are "very" working class - a higher proportion of Black 
>people are working class and Black people are concentrated in the poorest 
>sectors of the working class.  Thus, the social democratic pro-working class 
>reforms of the New Deal (won by mass working class struggle not volunteerily 
>given), limited as they were, were felt and appreciated by Black people, and 
>Black people shifted parties based on class consciousness. 

I think that there is a lot in that. Just think of the relation between
the CIO and black workers. While they were not saints, the CIO did
organise black workers (where the AF of L failed to) even to the point
of organising voter registration in the South to use black votes as a
lever against Conservative southern politicians like ?Martin Dies? (name
recovered from failing memory banks) the chair of the House UnAmerican
Activities Committee.
-- 
Jim heartfield