Poor Whites more likely to be racists.

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17. I have seen poor people who are racists, but most I have known are not.

I am a firm believer in that this is how the "powers that be" want it. As long as we are down here fighting and hating each other, we can't band together and fight them. I think this is shifting. I hope anyway.

We have a new neighbor on our street. We are working class, living in old brick ranches from the late 50s. This new guy, maybe 10 years younger than I, hangs a stars and bars flag. He talked to me and another neighbor and asked if we were offended. He "explained" how he wasn't a racist, and I clammed up to let him know I was not going to get into a fight with him. Perhaps as we live here longer, I will get a chance to tell him that his flag to me not only is racist, it is also him telling me that he will fight for the rich white guys, no matter what. And that is nothing to be proud of. It goes against all of the working people in our community.

He is ignorant. I can't fix that.

But, I did order a big tie dye flag with a peace sign in the middle. He will know where I stand.

There were an awful lot of poor whites who fought and died and lost everything they ever had in the Civil War. To me, they died and set their families back fighting for a cause that was 100% against them from the beginning. That is ignorance. And that attitude still lives today, but I don't think it was as strong as it was. Education helps. Empathy helps.