Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

The American Dream is exclusive, much as we may not want it to be. It tends to ignore the historical reality of minorities in this country, and place the success of whites at the forefront. This cannot be an American Dream, because that idea is a fantasy. It is a naive hope that we can all become Americans, a cultural melting pot that inevitably melts us all into one color: white.

This has to be a movement that places equality at it's front and center. Look at the history of the socialist movement--the closest it ever got to succeeding was when it had fully embraced the black rights movement as well as labor. It failed in large part because there was a significant portion of those groups who refused to do so.

I would submit to you the idea of a concrete plan to build a new America. Let's draw up a list of issues and methods to address them that will be the spearhead of the campaign. I, as with many others I know, don't hear hope in the idea of the American Dream. I hear crushed ideas, and fanciful expectations. We can't afford to dream any longer--we need to do.

(A couple of links, food for thought:
http://wrt-intertext.syr.edu/I2/pitts.html
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5858106)