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An Open Letter to the White Working Class: You Don’t Get to Hide Your Racism Behind “Economic Concerns”
Spandan Chakrabarti
November 20, 2016
Dear “Working Class” White Voters:
I don’t feel like niceties today, so I’m just going to launch into my rant. Brace yourselves.
Look, I think we all know what part of your “white working class” identity is overriding for you. It’s not the “working class” part. According to exit polling, Hillary Clinton won the working class vote. It’s the ‘white’ part that cost her the election.
Still, we’re told by the media again and again that you guys aren’t all racists, that you are all just pissed off that your working class living is gone. We are told that the factory jobs – at least the good paying factory jobs – have either disappeared from the “heartland” (given what you gave us though, we’re going to call you ‘heart-attack-land’ from now on) or been replaced with lower paying jobs. Even in the rust-belt, we’re told, a white man can no longer expect to put in all day at the local manufacturing (or coal) plant and expect to own a home, put food on the table, and raise his children.
We’re told that you are nostalgic for those days, and that this nostalgia is why you voted for the human wrecking ball. You blame politicians for not being able to restore the olden days, for making trade deals that move “your” jobs overseas for the fraction of the cost, and for immigrants you view as willingly providing cheaper labor here at home.
But seriously, can we have a moment to address what your nostalgia is really about?
Think about it. What, exactly, do you think gives you the entitlement to these jobs? What exactly makes these your jobs?
https://twitter.com/wgbhnews/status/800436389636689920
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https://twitter.com/soulphoodie/status/799671065194668032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/trueblacknews/status/800449573303058432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/edeweysmith/status/800441920208007169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/Khanoisseur/status/800505791643947009/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/Rhys604/status/798922309843025920
https://youtu.be/otuwNwsqHmQ&rel=0
This is who they are
https://mobile.twitter.com/SikhProf/status/800430702349156352
Horrible!
https://twitter.com/AshAgony/status/800490515598753793
https://twitter.com/AshAgony/status/800495530765877248
https://twitter.com/AshAgony/status/800497247536476161
https://twitter.com/AshAgony/status/800490957007417344
“Professional Black Girl: Video Series Celebrates ‘Everyday Excellence’ of Black Women and Girls”
http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2016/09/yaba-play-professional-black-girl/
https://youtu.be/KOKzcRv5yxY&rel=0
Zebras on the ranch close to my house…
Wow! I love zebras. How wonderful they are so close by for you, SG2!
I know. So beautiful there. I stopped to get a pic, then another car stopped…and the Zebras started to run away. I think we scared them.
That’s so cool. Looks like they have a pretty good life.
Zebras on the ranch close to my house…
https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/799296182862434305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/TheMattWilstein/status/799800969047392256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/MuslimMarine/status/667407931768512512
Ha1 Take the paddle to that fool.
https://twitter.com/rafalhill/status/800370258901159937
Yeah, this is certainly logical under the circumstances. The House of Clinton has been hit by a Cat-5 hurricane. With Hillary’s epic loss to Trump, the Clintons are done. Most of the other so called leaders need to be kicked to the curb as well.
Clinton’ were kicked to the curb in 2008, but they didn’t LEARN anything.
That’s true, it really was over for Hillary in 2008.
Not surprising one little bit.
Leave it to America to have the Black guy come in and shovel up the shit and turn it into gold.
Always creating a gold standard blueprint for the idiot, but do they use it? NOPE!
https://twitter.com/RosieGray/status/800380591187382272
Thank you Ametia for bringing us such great singers performing How Great Thou Art
God bless you and everyone here.
YVW, Yahtzee. :)))
Good Morning,Everyone😐😐😐😐
Good Morning, Rikyrah and Everyone.
Gospel singer Sallie Martin was born on this day in 1895.
https://youtu.be/J9TNGa3XFLo&rel=0
Good morning, everyone. I was listening to Christmas songs this morning and started feeling sad. I’m missing my mommy & daddy.
Good morning, SG2, and everyone.
I know what you mean. My father died when I was ten years old and Christmas was never the same.
I understand, SG2. I got teary-eyed yesterday.
I know. All the beautiful Christmas memories with my wonderful parents warm heart but also remind me that they are missing in the celebrations of today…their laughter, their support and love, their pearls of wisdom and their storytelling of stories passed down to them.
Good mid-morning, Everyone.