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"We Just Feel Like We Don't Belong Here Anymore
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/08/we-just-feel-like-we-dont-belong-here-anymore/Since Trumps election, there has been ample coverage of white peoplethe rise of white nationalism, the white working class that makes up Trumps core constituency, the 53 percent of white women who voted him into office. Much less has been written about the people of color who live and work amid the rising tide of white nationalism in rural red states.
It can be a lovely place to live, but in counties like Crockett, its hard to be anything other than white. So I decided to go back home and talk to the people I should have been talking to all alongpeople of color who live and work and go to school with white Trump supporters. They told me how it feels to live among neighbors who voted against their best interests andworst casetheir basic existence.
This is the piece Pierce wrote about today.
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"We Just Feel Like We Don't Belong Here Anymore (Original Post)
sinkingfeeling
Aug 2017
OP
I agree the article is very thought provoking that some ppl are still so "backwards" nt
iluvtennis
Aug 2017
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benld74
(9,904 posts)1. MAGA my 60 yr old backside!!
Skittles
(153,156 posts)2. they belong here
it's white supremacist nazi cowards who don't belong
Solly Mack
(90,764 posts)3. K&R
SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)4. Read the article, this is horrible
Some of the interviews are eye opening like you wouldn't believe, like the older white lady telling her black employee to move in because "I'd end up owning you anyway".
There's lots more, I am horrified by what I just read, this is insane, I don't know what more to say.
iluvtennis
(19,852 posts)5. I agree the article is very thought provoking that some ppl are still so "backwards" nt
raven mad
(4,940 posts)6. Saved to pass along.
This is just sad.
Duppers
(28,120 posts)7. That's my feeling, just deep sadness. nt