Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
QUIXOTIC 'POOR WHITES' -- THE WEAKEST LINK
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. In America, the weakest link is not the poor blacks. It is the quixotic 'poor whites'. The poor blacks usually act and vote in accordance with their perceived self-interests. Poor whites, ironically, do not. They usually vote for those who recompense their want with illusions of 'white' superiority. This large aggregation of white poor people is the Republicans' reliable base. They continually accept lies for truth, and white favoritism for fairness. Dispossessing this mentally deranged base of its enormous annual receipt of federal/state benefits, the inevitable consequence of "conservative" politics, and instating true justice in the legal system from police to politically appointed judges, may hopefully disabuse this befuddled recreant subclass of its 'poor white' superiority and strengthen that chain.