Dear White Folks - great piece in Ebony

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191. Money just feels like the deepest issue to me.

"If you dress up you get a pass"
I get a day pass. When I start talking and they find out about my car, where I live and work, than the pass gets revoked. I can't take the day off and go golfing with them. I can't go with them on the ski trip to Aspen, it costs too much. Class is a big divider.
"no such chance"
I think that's too strong a statement. I feel like Obama has been really speaking to me lately, when he says wealthy guys like him don't need more tax cuts on the backs of poorer folks like me. But at the same time, if you stand back and look, that's a wealthy black man behind that podium having compassion for a poorer white guy like me. The thing is you have those white people in the ghetto and prison, and you have people of color in wealth and power. Its true there is a skew, disproportionate amount of blacks in prison and so forth, but they aren't ALL black. The rich and powerful aren't ALL white, Obama is a highly visible example. And that's enough for me to acknowledge that there is some racism going on, but to feel the most important issues are economic.