Employment racism and economic racism is deadlier than the gun. Economic racism kill generations relegating generations of Black and Brown peoples to the margins of society.

For the second time in a week, the swelling protests against police brutality and an unequal criminal justice system coincided with planned labor strikes at low-wage employers yesterday, and for the second time, protesters joined forces, combining the struggle for a living wage with the struggle for the right to live free of police violence.

via Black poverty is state violence, too: Why struggles for criminal justice and living wage are uniting – Salon.com.