#62 Knowing what’s best for poor people
February 10, 2008 by clander
White people spend a lot of time of worrying about poor people. It takes up a pretty significant portion of their day.
They feel guilty and sad that poor people shop at Wal*Mart instead of Whole Foods, that they vote Republican instead of Democratic, that they go to Community College/get a job instead of studying art at a University.
It is a poorly guarded secret that, deep down, white people believe if given money and education that all poor people would be EXACTLY like them. In fact, the only reason that poor people make the choices they do is because they have not been given the means to make the right choices and care about the right things.
A great way to make white people feel good is to tell them about situations where poor people changed how they were doing things because they were given the ‘whiter’ option. “Back in my old town, people used to shop at Wal*Mart and then this non-profit organization came in and set up a special farmers co-op so that we could buy more local produce, and within two weeks the Wal*Mart shut down and we elected our first Democratic representative in 40 years.” White people will first ask which non-profit and are they hiring? After that, they will be filled with euphoria and will invite you to more parties to tell this story to their friends, so that they can feel great.
But it is ESSENTIAL that you reassert that poor people do not make decisions based on free will. That news could crush white people and their hope for the future.
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And here I was thinking the best thing for poor people was lots of money. But I can’t help myself because I am white.
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Who really cares about poor people in America? Nobody. But let’s hear the whites cry, whine, moan or b*tch about poor starving children in Africa. I came to believe American elites are more like Mexican elites, the castizos claim to be the protectors of indigenous people and rural peasants in their country. But it doesn’t explain the high rate of illegal immigration coming from the interior of Mexico.
your argument is true except in one aspect: Here in the US, the majority of people who are poor in the US are white people. And you KNOW that white American elites HATE poor white people more than any other group.
they pretend to love them, during election season at least
My bad, I was being facetious and you hit it right on the head on whites are in a conflict with their own: but more about class, money and prestige. Tell me what defines poor or low-income? Under 200K a year or the fact a majority of average white Americans earn 5 times the income than the average black American…and 8 times more than Hispanics.
The ‘average’ white american statistics is skewed by a few white americans who are multi-millionaires and billionaires. Those whites (with high school education or less) outnumber all minorities in the US combined and make up the majority of poor whites.
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