I don't know if I'm a devil or an angel around here right now.

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124. Oh GOSH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would never, ever imply that Tobin S. was trailer trash. Any more than I think he would ever imply that I'm a ni**er. But the words are used to describe working class white people, and they are very, very ugly. He has identified himself as working class, just as I have identified myself as black. I would not be surprised if there are people who use the phrase, and do mean Tobin S. Just as there are people who use the word Ni**er and definitely mean me.

What I was trying to establish is that he is part of a group of people that are being labelled in a very ugly, hateful matter, and frequently laughed at and dismissed. "Git er done" doesn't help. The Jeff Dunham "Nascar fan" doesn't help. We allow ourselves to laugh at this caricature of working class white people, and I'm sure they don't find it funny.

In thinking about it, this is one area in which white working class people are "discriminated against". America has decided that it's okay to make fun of them. To slam them, to degrade them, to think less of them. It's big money to make fun of working class white people. Ni**er jokes, Pollack jokes, were all eliminated. But making fun of working class white people - that's okay.

Words hurt.

No, a thousand times no, I was not trying to call the man anything of the sort.