Headline this morning from the AP about "Democrats banking on aid to win back the working class."

[thucythucy]

That is so misleading. Last I checked the overwhelming majority of African American working class voters voted Democratic in this past election and in others going back years.

The headline is obviously referring to white working class voters, so I guess the assumption on the part of the Associated Press is that the millions of working class voters of color don't count. Or is it that you can't be "working class" if you're African American?

Either way, it pissed me off to see this headline first thing in the morning.

[2naSalit]

1. K&R

[UncleTomsEvilBrother]

2. Black erasure...

...happens all the time in the media. Sad.

[dawg day]

3. That annoys me too.

As if the working class was all white and mostly male.

[Dream Girl]

4. "Blue collar workers" white men

[ananda]

5. I see.

It's implicitly racist in its assumptions.

What was meant was white working class people
... very likely... assuming that Black people are
not "hard workers" like white people. I had to
hear my uncle say that more than once

Sheesh

[Takket]

6. "win back"??? We lost them????? rethugs have one popular vote win since 1992

[thucythucy]

7. That too.

That headline is so wrong is so many ways.

[dawg day]

8. Also when the media talks about how "evangelicals" support Trump overwhelmingly--

They seldom say "white evangelicals". Black evangelicals, of course, did NOT support Trump.

[edhopper]

9. How about

"Idiotic white men don't know who helps them."

[David__77]

10. I read major media "working class" as "white people."

And not necessarily even working class, because I suspect that it includes small proprietors as well.