White Poverty

[littlemissmartypants]

Rev. William Barber & Jonathan Wilson -
Hartgrove: White Poverty

https://www.youtube.com/live/BL8TwnHDB18

Run time: 01:07:15

When most Americans think of poverty, they imagine Black faces. As a teenager, Reverend William J. Barber ll recalls seeing Black mothers interviewed on television whenever there was a story on food stamps or unemployment; poverty, then as now, was depicted as an essentially Black problem. In a work that promises to have lasting repercussions, Barber-now a leading advocate for the rights of our nation's poor and the "closest person we have to Dr. King" (Cornel West)--addresses white poverty as a hugely neglected subject that might just be the key to mitigating racism and bringing together the tens of millions working-class and impoverished whites with low-income Blacks. Recognizing that angry social media posts have replaced food, education, and housing as a "salve" for the white poor, Barber contends that the millions of America's lowest-income earners have much in common, and together with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, provides one of the most sympathetic and visionary approaches to endemic poverty in decades.

[Dan]

1. Wow, shades of Charles Dickens....

Shades of Marxism…..

Shades of issues when American only dealt with Indentured servitude rather than slavery. When poor Blacks and Whites found common cause and lived in relative harmony that scared hell out of the rich.

Damn, People of the world Unite.

In America, sounds like a man asking for early death.

[keithbvadu2]

2. President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man,

President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

[erronis]

4. Thanks, and welcome!

Agree - but if the messaging is controlled by the M$M and tech companies, how to reach the rest of us?