What this does is allow people to maintain power by virtue of accidents of birth (race, gender, class, etc – likely an intersection of identities) rather than through their own merit which actively harms our progress as a society. To maintain that power, they have sold a lie to poor whites that they could become one of them, and in the meantime, at least they were better than non-whites.
Plot (yes, I’m calling this plot): Western society has been built around the accumulation of power by a tiny fraction of white men. Reading this book puts me in the mind of what I’ve seen on TV of going to one of those televised evangelical church sessions where you pay someone to slap you in the face to cure you of cancer, only instead of a conman trying to steal people’s money, it’s an intelligent woman giving me the words to express frustrations I’ve never been able to properly explain and it is so cathartic it almost feels like an out of body experience.
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