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The Lowest White Man - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/opinion/trump-immigration-white-supremacy.html
Charles M. Blow
Jan 11, 2018
...............In his essay Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880, W.E.B. Du Bois discussed why poor whites didnt make common cause with poor blacks and slaves but instead prized their roles as overseers and slave catchers, eagerly joining the Klan. This fed the white mans vanity because it associated him with the masters, Du Bois wrote.
He continued:
Slavery bred in the poor white a dislike of Negro toil of all sorts. He never regarded himself as a laborer, or as part of any labor movement. If he had any ambition at all it was to become a planter and to own niggers. To these Negroes he transferred all the dislike and hatred which he had for the whole slave system. The result was that the system was held stable and intact by the poor white.
For white supremacy to be made perfect, the lowest white man must be exalted above those who are black.
No matter how much of an embarrassment and a failure Trump proves to be, his exploits must be judged a success. He must be deemed a correction to Barack Obama and a superior choice to Hillary Clinton. White supremacy demands it. Patriarchy demands it. Trumps supporters demand it.
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The Lowest White Man - (Original Post)
riversedge
Jan 2018
OP
I really hope all the "we must get over Identity Politics" people would read this editorial.
rogue emissary
Jan 2018
#3
dalton99a
(81,637 posts)1. LBJ said it best
atreides1
(16,094 posts)2. LBJ
rogue emissary
(3,148 posts)3. I really hope all the "we must get over Identity Politics" people would read this editorial.
Especially this excerpt:
In his essay Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880, W.E.B. Du Bois discussed why poor whites didnt make common cause with poor blacks and slaves but instead prized their roles as overseers and slave catchers, eagerly joining the Klan. This fed the white mans vanity because it associated him with the masters, Du Bois wrote.
He continued:
Slavery bred in the poor white a dislike of Negro toil of all sorts. He never regarded himself as a laborer, or as part of any labor movement. If he had any ambition at all it was to become a planter and to own niggers. To these Negroes he transferred all the dislike and hatred which he had for the whole slave system. The result was that the system was held stable and intact by the poor white.
For white supremacy to be made perfect, the lowest white man must be exalted above those who are black.
He continued:
Slavery bred in the poor white a dislike of Negro toil of all sorts. He never regarded himself as a laborer, or as part of any labor movement. If he had any ambition at all it was to become a planter and to own niggers. To these Negroes he transferred all the dislike and hatred which he had for the whole slave system. The result was that the system was held stable and intact by the poor white.
For white supremacy to be made perfect, the lowest white man must be exalted above those who are black.