Whiteness is the original identity politic; it created an entire nation on the theft of indigenous land and the theft of black labor.
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Whiteness is the identity politic that automatically makes you think of white folks when you hear "working class." Ahem.
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If there was ever a working class in the US, it's been black folks. Robbed of labor to create the nation, never compensated to this day.
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Whiteness been so successful as an identity politic that it's invisible, seeped into nearly every institution and practice. That's powerful.
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If you substituted "whiteness" with a description of another race/color, people would call you a racist. Hmmm.
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