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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.