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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"Identity politics are tearing us apart!" Umm yes whiteness has torn "us" apart for centuries. You keep doing ok, tho.
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As a powerful identity politic, whiteness matters for everything: infant mortality, education, health, wealth, income, life expectancy....
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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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