It wasn’t poor whites who criminalized blackness by way of marijuana laws and the “war on drugs.”
Nor was it poor whites who conjured the specter of the black “welfare queen.”
These points should not minimize the horrors of racism at the lowest economic rungs of society, but remind us that those horrors reside at the top in different forms and with more terrible power.
Among reporters and commentators this election cycle, then, a steady finger ought be pointed at whites with economic leverage: social conservatives who donate to Trump’s campaign while being too civilized to attend a political rally and yell what they really believe.
— Who are the most fervent Trump supporters? Not necessarily the poor- and lower-class white communities you might think from reading the news. Writing in The Guardian, Sarah Smarsh — political liberal and native Kansan — picks apart the class bias fueling the one-dimensional media coverage of poor white communities who are “blamed” for the rise of Donald Trump. Spoiler alert: even in red states, there’s diversity and nuance.
from Longreads Blog https://blog.longreads.com/2016/10/13/whos-to-blame-for-trump-medias-socioeconomic-blind-spots/
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