I just started reading a book called “Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South”. It’s very interesting; it’s the sort of thing you never learn about in school. Slavery debased the majority of whites in the South in a way from which they have yet to recover.
On 6/3/21 at 20:27, Curtis P wrote: "The racism of Northern police also has something to do with the more “racialized” nature of poverty in the North as compared to the South. In the North, people of color tend to be heavily overrepresented in the ranks of the poor, whereas in the South there are higher rates of poverty and more of the white population is very poor." https://gasoline-and-grits.org/2021/06/03/the-surprising-geography-of-police-killings-back-of-the-napkin-calculations-on-race-region-and-violence/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#8968): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/8968 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/83298115/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
