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JaneyVee

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2. Amazing how this dynamic is still playing out today.

Thu Dec 4, 2014, 11:50 PM

Dec 2014

This is basically what the rightwing peddles in terms of divide and conquer. Its why they continue to get poor whites to vote for them; fear. As long as someone is lower than you on the social ladder, you won't be the bottom. Yet, in terms of socio-economics they have alot more in common with the bottom 99% than they do with the top 1% they keep choosing to protect.

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How White People Got Made [View all] JaneyVee Dec 2014 OP

upsetting olddots Dec 2014 #1

Amazing how this dynamic is still playing out today. JaneyVee Dec 2014 #2

Multi-level marketing at it's finest. bluesbassman Dec 2014 #6

Lyndon Johnson said it best noiretextatique Dec 2014 #12

thankyou for the link olddots Dec 2014 #3

Tremendous K&R-nt Anansi1171 Dec 2014 #4

Washington and Jefferson were racist hypocrites. Nye Bevan Dec 2014 #5

you'll notice the omission of women as well Skittles Dec 2014 #7

That phrase was considered extreme in a time when there were people who believed God made them King. Spitfire of ATJ Dec 2014 #10

History tells a story ReRe Dec 2014 #8

Some claim white people were here first with a white Adam and a white Eve made by a white God. Spitfire of ATJ Dec 2014 #9

on a white cloud... Electric Monk Dec 2014 #11

Makes ya wonder what they've been smokin'. Spitfire of ATJ Dec 2014 #13

With the Slave Trade starting in the 1400's One_Life_To_Give Dec 2014 #14

Virgina was not even established as a colony until 1607 Bluenorthwest Dec 2014 #15