But frfr I have a word on my spirit regarding this: beware of anybody who uses you as EVIDENCE but does not include you in their ANALYSIS.
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Any accurate class analysis in the US MUST understand that for most of US history, blackness put you in a separate class below poor whites.
That was the ENTIRE purpose of Jim Crow---to ensure that blackness remained an independent class marker after the end of slavery.
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So when you work to alter class relations, you must also work to destroy the remnants of what I might call 'the nigger class.'
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the word nigger being emblematic of the class they tried to put all of us in (and that violence remains in white usages of that word.)
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