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riversedge

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Fri Jan 12, 2018, 10:35 AM Jan 2018

The Lowest White Man -




‘The Lowest White Man’ - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/opinion/trump-immigration-white-supremacy.html


Charles M. Blow

Jan 11, 2018


...............In his essay “Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880,” W.E.B. Du Bois discussed why poor whites didn’t make common cause with poor blacks and slaves but instead prized their roles as overseers and slave catchers, eagerly joining the Klan. This fed the white man’s “vanity because it associated him with the masters,” Du Bois wrote.

He continued:

“Slavery bred in the poor white a dislike of Negro toil of all sorts. He never regarded himself as a laborer, or as part of any labor movement. If he had any ambition at all it was to become a planter and to own ‘niggers.’ To these Negroes he transferred all the dislike and hatred which he had for the whole slave system. The result was that the system was held stable and intact by the poor white.”

For white supremacy to be made perfect, the lowest white man must be exalted above those who are black.

No matter how much of an embarrassment and a failure Trump proves to be, his exploits must be judged a success. He must be deemed a correction to Barack Obama and a superior choice to Hillary Clinton. White supremacy demands it. Patriarchy demands it. Trump’s supporters demand it.





Charles M. Blow
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Thanks Twitter family: “The Lowest White Man,” is trending. Read the column here.









Pic is from the article. That white hat with his suitcoat suckS!!!



President Trump at the White House on Sunday. Eric Thayer for The New York Times
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The Lowest White Man - (Original Post) riversedge Jan 2018 OP
LBJ said it best dalton99a Jan 2018 #1
LBJ atreides1 Jan 2018 #2
I really hope all the "we must get over Identity Politics" people would read this editorial. rogue emissary Jan 2018 #3

rogue emissary

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3. I really hope all the "we must get over Identity Politics" people would read this editorial.
Fri Jan 12, 2018, 11:15 AM
Jan 2018

Especially this excerpt:

In his essay “Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880,” W.E.B. Du Bois discussed why poor whites didn’t make common cause with poor blacks and slaves but instead prized their roles as overseers and slave catchers, eagerly joining the Klan. This fed the white man’s “vanity because it associated him with the masters,” Du Bois wrote.

He continued:

“Slavery bred in the poor white a dislike of Negro toil of all sorts. He never regarded himself as a laborer, or as part of any labor movement. If he had any ambition at all it was to become a planter and to own ‘niggers.’ To these Negroes he transferred all the dislike and hatred which he had for the whole slave system. The result was that the system was held stable and intact by the poor white.”

For white supremacy to be made perfect, the lowest white man must be exalted above those who are black.
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