When you were/are poor, did you ever consider joining a hate group?

...how hatred will help me get out of poverty.

I would never consider joining the GOP.

Maybe a more relevant one is; "Is your or your parent's economic oppression a result of affirmative action?" It is so much a part of the mind set that allows people to blame an outside force for their own failures. Or worse, the failure of white America to stand up for them. Casual racism is buried in conventional wisdom.
It goes much deeper than a basic cause and effect. White people making the mistake of ignoring the subtlties perpetuate the false idea that people who enable white supremacy are generally bad people. Thus, making fragile whites feel more comfortable because they can't be defenders of white supremacy because those are the people who wear white robes and hoods, participate in violence, or use the n word.

Oooops that's dad, uncle Bob, my co-workers, or maybe I've let jokes slide by without question a time or two.

bad action.

I think white people need to make more effort to understand the subtlties.






My read is that she is understood to be a particularly good person because racism upset her so much. With that, she successfully reverted to white supremacy, probably without a second thought, and maintained her good person status.

When you (royal "you" do a bad thing, apologize or make amends, learn and try to avoid doing do again.

Actions matter. Intentions matter. I try to do that rather than get hung up on terminology arguments.

Thanks for the articles.

as part of my own regrettable history. There's no way to truly make ammends but it is essential to work on the present and towards a better future.

And I was homeless for a good portion of my childhood.

3rd even and put myself through school...

Who had time for joining any groups?

I was happy to get 6 hours of sleep.

Being poor is more exhausting than people realize. so glad those days are long gone, but I will never forget.

I'm totally capable of getting pissed off for a good reason. Hell, I'm pissed right now over Charlotteville. But I'm not going to let these events turn me into some kind of genocidal maniac.

I've always been very conscious of the fact that depression era economics played a big role in the rise of Hitler.