"I lived 10 years w/o healthcare. I can go as long as we gotta go." - Ben Dixon on why we should hold up Medicare for All until we get Reparations.

I support Reparations. Pitting these issues against each other is extremely regressive. And it's cruel in the middle of a pandemic.

This "either or" strategy is exactly what liberals have used to shoot down universal programs that inure disproportionately to the benefit of poor black/brown people. I wrote an article about it. https://theintercept.com/2018/08/26/beware-the-race-reductionist/

That quote is from the same stream on which he accused me of being an uncle tom (It's near the end).

"You don't get no medicare for all without Reparations." -Marcus.

"I done lived 10 years without health care. Alright? I can go however long we gotta go." - @BenjaminPDixon