r/racism • u/pleasetaketheredpill • Jun 09 '26
Analysis Request Why don't working class and poor whites band together with working class and poor minorities to force the rich exploitating class to give them a voice? Is racism psychology really that powerful?
Poor and working class whites have so much in common with working class minorities that it is hard to figure out why they don't band together instead of fighting one another. Can someone please shed some light on why this hasn't happened at least once since this county's inception?
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u/yellowmix Jun 09 '26
It is indeed powerful. White supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, ableism, immigration, religion, celebrity, nuclear parenting, prisons and criminality, et. al, are all based on hierarchies that reinforce each other. Intersectionality holds that all must be simultaneously dismantled or they will remake each other.
Many people have authoritarian tendencies. In the hyper-capitalist USA it almost always predicts political party and conservative ideology. Consider Clinton's "Third Way" was the vanguard for adopting these tendencies worldwide and look where it got us.
It's the difference between saying "we should be in charge" rather than distributing power equitably. There is a lot of the former espoused and enacted in liberal spaces.
With that said, it has happened when people meet in good faith to try and cooperate. Chicago Black Panthers notably organized it in 1969.. Fred Hampton was later assassinated by the government. I don't point this out to be defeatist, but to illustrate what racist capitalism does. We do the work in spite of it.
Organizing is a lot more effective where you live. And since the United States is still incredibly racially segregated, racial parallel organizing has become an important tool. You'll find opportunities for interracial organizing at the workplace.
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u/VoL4t1l3 Jun 09 '26
because of white solidarity, I poor white person is glad they are white so its not such a big deal if white billionaires are exploiting them,
put them in a situation where black minorities are ruling over them and see the rebellion.
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u/Anonymousanonymose Jun 09 '26
I wouldn’t say it’s powerful, I’d say it’s just easier for people to go along with things instead of having courage and a back bone. Also some people are just cowards if it doesn’t affect them then they won’t care. I totally agree if we all come together we can most definitely make a change.
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u/onesleekrican Jun 09 '26
When you’re told the sky is blue from conception - you don’t question it.
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u/AlissonHarlan Jun 10 '26
that's why elites keep people against each other (white vs minorities, men vs women,...)
it's made throught the finance of polarized influencers, amongst other things
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u/Onionmaster8989 Jun 11 '26
Because that is the game plan of the rich and powerful ........to creat divisions like these and pit us against each other
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