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Apparently I'm gonna have to write an article about race and class cause I can't believe how many of you don't get it.
I mean Martin Luther King Jr literally spoke about this.
I mean Martin Luther King Jr literally spoke about this.
Don't forget about this salient fact.
And it was largely due to white resentment that went into overdrive after he started...wait for it.
Supporting poor white workers. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/04/04/martin-luther-king-jr-50-years-assassination-donald-trump-disapproval-column/482242002/
Supporting poor white workers. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/04/04/martin-luther-king-jr-50-years-assassination-donald-trump-disapproval-column/482242002/
America remembers MLK in this happy and pacifist life. But if you read about him, especially the last 3 years of it, it was sad and heartbreaking.
He saw that incremental peace wouldn't work. That it required a wholesale change of the system, and he was hated for it.
He saw that incremental peace wouldn't work. That it required a wholesale change of the system, and he was hated for it.
Moving forward, we HAVE to understand the depths of this problem. We can't just pretend like "working class" is an inclusive term, because in America it never has been.
And you can see this time and time again over the very history I get quoted on. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-martin-luther-king-had-75-percent-disapproval-rating-year-he-died-180968664/
And you can see this time and time again over the very history I get quoted on. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-martin-luther-king-had-75-percent-disapproval-rating-year-he-died-180968664/
The Root discusses this topic in a tasty way as usual. https://www.theroot.com/white-working-class-narrative-is-nothing-but-a-racist-1790857771
People keep coming to play historian to me, but this has been talked about for a long time.
Ya'll just weren't reading about it. https://www.salon.com/2016/12/27/the-invention-of-the-white-working-class-the-phrase-of-the-year-is-racist-hogwash_partner/
Ya'll just weren't reading about it. https://www.salon.com/2016/12/27/the-invention-of-the-white-working-class-the-phrase-of-the-year-is-racist-hogwash_partner/
And plenty of books about it.
This is one I've personally read and I love. https://www.amazon.com/Dog-Whistle-Politics-Appeals-Reinvented/dp/019022925X
This is one I've personally read and I love. https://www.amazon.com/Dog-Whistle-Politics-Appeals-Reinvented/dp/019022925X
More sources. Don't forget that 40% of "working class" Americans are NOT white. https://portside.org/2020-06-20/racism-and-working-class
