Could you imagine Michael Steele saying, "I come from the wealthy black class. I hate to think about how we've disappointed them"? That's impossible, yet we talk about the white working class every day. Hmmmmm...
Now, Michael Steele saying "I come from black people and we Republicans really could be reaching black folks," that's perfectly normal. (A pipe dream, thank God, but a normal thing to say.)
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and yet "white working class" has never been stationed relative to "working class" in a way at all similar to how "wealthy blacks" is stationed relative to "black people."
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part of that is, of course, sheer political math: wealthy blacks don't vote that differently than poor blacks. But part of it is... you guessed it, white supremacy!!
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