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A huge reason why racism is so bad in economically depressed white communities is the upper classes exploit it.

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.

So to a lot of whites, black poverty is a result of racial inferiority, white poverty is a failure of character.

yes and I get how it can especially hurt when the culture-at-large replaces "racial inferiority" with "racial oppression"...

especially when it's so woven into the culture-at-large you can't even see it anymore and hides behind dog whistles and biases.

happens on racial issues too, though. In many upper class white communities, race becomes an 'invisible disability' like class...

cause a lot of these white folks really did believe that racism was solved somewhere between MLK and Bill Cosby, esp in Bush 2 years.

Oh my yes. There's also what I call "clutch bag" racism and "Yankee racism." Best example is Redlining.