{"id":2655,"date":"2011-10-27T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/10\/race-and-occupy-wall-street.html"},"modified":"2011-10-27T22:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T22:45:00","slug":"race-and-occupy-wall-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/10\/race-and-occupy-wall-street.html","title":{"rendered":"Race and Occupy Wall Street"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The incident is well-known now. When civil rights hero Representative John Lewis asked to address Occupy Atlanta, the activists\u2019 consensus process produced a decision not to let him speak. For many, the denial was a damning answer to a question that had arisen since the earliest, overwhelmingly white occupiers first took over Zuccotti Park: Is Occupy Wall Street diverse enough?<\/span>
The notion of taking over Wall Street clearly resonates with communities of color. Malik Rhassan and Ife Johari Uhuru, black activists from Queens, New York, and Detroit, respectively, started Occupy the Hood to encourage and make space for people of color to join the movement. On October 19, a different group, Occupy Harlem, put out \u201ca call to Blacks, Latinos, and immigrants to occupy their communities against predatory investors, displacement, privatization and state repression.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDiverse enough for what?\u201d is the query that leaps to mind. Diversity alone will not ensure that OWS advances an economic change agenda that is racially equitable.<\/div>\n
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The incident is well-known now. When civil rights hero Representative John Lewis asked to address Occupy Atlanta, the activists\u2019 consensus process produced a decision not to let him speak. For many, the denial was a damning answer to a question that had arisen since the earliest, overwhelmingly white occupiers first took over Zuccotti Park: Is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nRace and Occupy Wall Street<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The incident is well-known now. 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