Welcome back MA. Someone I can vehemently disagree with! If you think it is not about race, you're not thinking it through. Nor, by the way, are migrant workers displacing American workers. I have not seen these protests concerning European workers, has anyone (since, say, 1922)? No, they have brown skin. It is possible, if one intellectualizes it (as Ma does here), to place it in another context, to create a semblance of a balanced, rational genesis. But, that is to distort reality. The reason for the protests is as Rick described, and the motivation of the protesters is race. It doesn't take a "liberal" to make it about race, it started there.

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Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich