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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I disagree, although I can definitely see where you are coming from. Places like Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi are still dealing with outright racism in some areas. There was even astory I read about a town that had a white okigarchy which wouldn’t give its black resudents mayorship. The South, while seeming like it won’t change, will eventually have to. There are a lot of demographic shifts happening here that will force it to change some. Not to mention a growing labor movement, awareness of clinate change, and growing activism to address social issues that will increasingly put pressure on local and stare governments. So, yes, it will take time to correct the inertia of the status quo, but it’s possible.





  • I agree with this post you made. If the best we can do is vote into office a fairly old, out-of-tuoch president who has done a moderately decent job of running the United States, then it’s a lose-lose situation for everyone. Politics especially in the United States has become too boring and safe. We need to take a risk on Cornell West and spice the game up a bit. Else we’ll repeat the same mistakes we’ve been making for the past 50 years.

    Edit; pls forgive my passion posting, whoops. Point is we need a shake up cuz stuff is going down the drain a little













  • Black Americans, Latinos, and rural whites, on the other hand, are more likely to live in “distressed” zip codes, places losing both jobs and people.

    The place that less-educated white people occupy in the national fabric has changed as well. Once farmer-settlers, they have now been left behind by progress. As Isabel Wilkerson writes in her 2020 book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, the United States is best understood as a society with a modern caste system, a rigid racial hierarchy created before our country’s birth. While Blacks are at the bottom of the hierarchy, the least-educated whites are the lowest ranking among the dominant group. Even when people in this group knew they weren’t the best off, what kept them from feeling that they were at the very bottom was the color of their skin. 

    I never though of it like that, but it makes sense. Oftentimes, rural areas, just like racial groups, are left behind as jobs move more towards cities and abroa. This results in an internal clash woth the race hierarchy and class hierarchy. Economically, they are poor, yet socially they should be rich because of their whiteness. Because of their perceived social capital they think all the benefits afforded fo them by their whitenes should translate over to material wealth, which in a lot of cases, it doesnt.

    If we want to fix this issue, we have figure out a way to help rural areas have a beter quality if life, and not leave them behind because it is inconvenient for us.