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...
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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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