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« on: June 26, 2017, 08:28:53 pm »
It can all be summarize, explained and distilled into this one quote from LBJ...
“I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
Tell me that's not the God's honest truth still now in 2017. It's the epitome of divide and conquer politics. As long as the "mud colored folks" aren't getting anything, they're OK with the policies that cut their noses off to spite their faces. White people were always the top of the food chain, given opportunities and jobs, the GI Bill...that all gave them the opportunity to build wealth and increase the gap over the decades. Now, those same people and the generations that came after them find that the generational jobs they had on lockdown for decades are in dead or dying industries. Now they have to compete...have to earn their place in the world and they've gotten "angry" and in turn have given us the Cheeto-in-Chief.