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Tuesday 23rd of April 2024

Poor Whites They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them. Barack Obama © 2015 Kwiple.com
White privilege Fish don't know they swim in water saying © 2017 Kwiple.com
Whites  As late as the 1996 presidential election, counties that were at least 85 percent white and earned less than the national  median income split about evenly between  Democrat Bill Clinton and Republican Bob Dole. In the 2016 election, such counties went 658 for Donald Trump and two for Hillary Clinton.  Robert Kuttner. New York Review of Books, July 21, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Whites The only thing white people have that black people need, or should want, is power—and no one holds power forever. James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time   © 2017 Kwiple.com
Whites White Republicans have become more intolerant about the country's growing diversity. White Democrats haven't. That's the big change. Stephen Marche, The Next Civil War  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Whites Whites, it must be frankly said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to re-educate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so littile to learn. Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go From Here:  Chaos or Community?  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Whites With Obama, there was this narrative: “Woo, we have crossed the racial Rubicon! We have overcome! We put a Black man in the White House!” Without looking at the data that shows that a majority of white people did not vote for Barack Obama and that they have not voted for a Democratic candidate for president since 1964, the year Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. Carol Anderson, New York Times Magazine, March 20, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Whites The world is white no longer, and it will never be white again. James Baldwin, “Stranger in the Village” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Working-class whites Not all of the white working class struggles. I knew even as a child that there were two separate sets of mores and social pressures. My grandparents embodied one type: old-fashioned, quietly faithful, self-reliant, hardworking. My mother and, increasingly, the entire neighborhood embodied another: consumerist, isolated, angry, distrustful. J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy © 2016 Kwiple.com
 
Working-class whites The [white working class] fantasy is to become an order-giver rather than an order-taker. Trump is an order-giver. That's the brilliance of “You're fired!” Joan C. Williams, Financial Times, May 13-14, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com