Working-Class Whites Still Have It A Whole Lot Better Than Their Black Counterparts
While the popular spin is that Trump won because he was a populist addressing the needs of America's working class, the facts about 40 percent of the working class were minorities who voted in large part for Hillary Clinton. Likewise, for all the talk about Democrats needing to get away from identity politics, Donald Trump is the one who built his campaign on racist and sexist attacks.
Donald Trump won because he offered his whites something even better than actual solutions. He offered a scapegoat. And, now the white working class has a scapegoat, but Trump now is claiming a mandate to roll back Medicare, Obamacare, public education, etc., all programs that heavily benefit the white working class that formed Trump's constituency.
In other words, Trump used racism not only to hurt the targets of this racism and hate, but as a means to also oppress working class whites.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/white-black-working-class_us_583ef120e4b0c33c8e1335f3
With all the talk about the struggles of white working-class men and their role in handing the presidency to Donald Trump, you’d think they were the most economically disadvantaged people in the country ― that somehow, workers of color were seeing their economic prospects rise at the expense of white workers without college degrees. No.
First, the working class ― which we’re defining as people without college degrees ― isn’t exclusively made up of white people. Hispanic, black and Asian workers comprise about 40 percent of those in the labor force without degrees.
Second, all working-class Americans are suffering through stagnant wages and a job market that’s increasingly terrible for those without a lot of education.
The reasons black working-class people didn’t line up for Trump should be pretty obvious by now. The president-elect’s campaign was full of racist and bigoted rhetoric ― and white supremacists have been energized by his victory.
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