07-05-2023, 07:34 AM
I have got some news for folks in this thread: Those in power don't care about any of the poor people. Black, white, or any other racial categorization you can come up with. More white people are in poverty because there are more white people. A higher percentage of people in poverty are people of color because they have been restrained from creating intergenerational wealth since we (nominally) ended slavery. Efforts to prevent that creation of intergenerational wealth have also impacted poor white individuals, and this has been known since the Reconstruction Era, but those in power do not care. Poor is poor and we working folks don't hold the power. To keep us from recognizing this and banding together, they continue to foment this animosity based on race so those of us facing some of the same struggles don't come together and realize just how much those elected officials suck.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
