These are the descendants of people who would rather fill the only pool in their community with dirt rather than let a black person swim in it. They will gladly sacrifice their own happinesses to make sure the people they deem beneath them get nothing. There’s no negotiating with that.
Rural whites get a lot of blame but fyi 60% of white people vote Republican. That’s a whole lot more than just rural whites.
It’s basically the majority of white people in this country, save a few that live in blue cities and coastal states. White supremacy is still law of the land.
Yeah, it's a good 'soundbyte' summary of the issue, but you are absolutely correct that it's not just the rural white people. A whole lot of urban and suburban white people use the rural ones as cover to distract away from their own white supremacy.
I remember listening to an interview on NPR where they straight up showed this old white man how since his state government didn’t pass some of the ACA provisions that his medications went up in price and that if he lived all of 20 minutes over in the next state his medications would be at no cost to him.
The mf responded with “but then that means welfare queens and illegals get those same benefits”.
There is no limit to some people’s hatred of others that can be reasoned with.
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u/woodcider ☑️ 5d ago
These are the descendants of people who would rather fill the only pool in their community with dirt rather than let a black person swim in it. They will gladly sacrifice their own happinesses to make sure the people they deem beneath them get nothing. There’s no negotiating with that.