To speak to the whiteness of the crowd, I actually felt moved to see so many white people, very normal-looking white people, standing around the edges of this park looking liberated themselves, holding up signs that criticize capitalism. Some were speaking from their privilege, and others from their own economic struggles. But to have masses of white people in the streets talking about the economy with a progressive decentralized grassroots perspective, and have it not be the Tea Party, is a tipping point signal. The crises are becoming clear even to those not being directly oppressed, or
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