>>765370>bad reading comprehensionYou aren't incorrect about that, but you're also a fucking twit. Poor reading comprehension or not, the general understanding of what this book is, wasn't incorrect; it's radlib trash. It reads like a long-winded post from some succ-dem subreddit.
>American wealth was built on the labor kidnapped and enslaved Africans and their descendantsIt took nearly half a century for black slaves to become a part of the American-colonial economy because the first ones fucking died and were poorly suited to life in the colonies. Press-ganged whites and Irish were the primary exploited work force, and this remained so in the North up through the early 20th century. There were even early-colonial uprisings in Virginia by these indentured servants and colonized Native Americans. Furthermore the majority of the American industrial economy was built in the North, where slave labor was much less important to the economy, and was almost nonexistent in the Mid-West.
>Women were denied the right to vote until 1920>black women were denied that right until 1964 >We have yet to achieve our founding principle, but any gains (made) thus far have come through identity politics What a load of utter liberal horse-shit. Women were granted voting rights because the USSR did and it was one of the societal concessions granted in the US for fear of proletarian revolt. As the saying goes, "If voting could change anything it would be made illegal!â*
The African-American rights movement gained ground because of (again) the USSR and it's activity in anti-racism as well as the broader societal unrest of the 1960s. Additionally the Black Panthers and MLK both emphasized not racial change but societal change for PROLETARIANS to unite and be equal.
Identity Politics was never the basis of these efforts. The specific racial identity in play was merely a specific facet of a broader proletarian struggle, not idpol.
>pic *Article from 24 Sep 1976 The Sun (Lowell, MA) First confirmed use of the quote on voting.
So anyway, TL;DR: But this entire 'book' is based on liberal mindset about race and racial position in the United States. On a functional, real level racism is not systemic in the USA. Blacks live the same as whites and with roughly the same proportionality of class. There's a small population out of the overall population and is reflected in every class level. Just like whites, the majority of the population, most blacks are at the poverty line or below, and functionally live no differently regardless of race