For most Americans dealing with the poor, no matter what race they are, is as alien as dealing with someone from a foreign culture.
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Replying to @Amanda_Kerri
Yes, although... have you found that difference to be lessened at all along racial lines?
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Replying to @csilverandgold @Amanda_Kerri
by which I mean: class distinctions among black folks are relatively novel relative to the history of poor white ppl in America.
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Replying to @csilverandgold @Amanda_Kerri
so in my experience, poor and middle class/rich black folks have a little better time relating to one another. But could just be me.
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Replying to @csilverandgold
I honestly wouldn't want to venture a guess about class conflict in black communities since I have no experience.
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Replying to @Amanda_Kerri @csilverandgold
However, having grown up in Mississippi, and have read my history, I can definitely tell you, class superiority is HUUUUGE with white folks.
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Replying to @Amanda_Kerri @csilverandgold
A huge reason why racism is so bad in economically depressed white communities is the upper classes exploit it.
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Replying to @Amanda_Kerri @csilverandgold
It's been going on so long now in places like Mississippi and Alabama, that it really is baked into the culture of those places.
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Replying to @Amanda_Kerri @csilverandgold
So to a lot of whites, black poverty is a result of racial inferiority, white poverty is a failure of character.
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Replying to @Amanda_Kerri
yes and I get how it can especially hurt when the culture-at-large replaces "racial inferiority" with "racial oppression"...
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while making no such alteration in our culture-at-large analysis of white poverty. Totally. It sucks.
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