Reply #7: What the hell?

[BumRushDaShow]

Why is it that blue-collar, working class black men are suddenly not considered "blue-collar, working class"? They certainly aren't "latte-sipping, Volvo-driving liberals". They work at the same places as the so-called (read: "white") "average Joe", and drink their 6-packs just like "Joe", and watch the game (or games) on Sundays in the fall. They collect trash, drive busses, clean streets, build cars, plow the fields, embalm and bury the dead, move household goods, climb ladders into burning buildings, connect up your cable, drive ambulances, deliver packages, lay pipes in the middle of the street after jackhammering a hole and digging through the rest, paint houses, wear a badge to protect neighborhoods, and pour out the asphalt on highways at 2 in the morning, just like your "average Joe". :eyes:

I am sick to death of this labeling bullshit, particularly the code words and the racialization of the lingo.... and I can't wait for the day when these mis-used definitions are revised.