Kansas City Faith Blogger Contemplates Fate Of Poor Whites Struggling Under Capitalism

From the top local writer on faith & morals as we remind readers that probs for poor whites are a constant of American history . . . Nevertheless . . . His latest post is more of a book review but this passage that blogger Bill quotes is worthy of consideration.

The quote comes from a member of the clergy who has been down in the trenches doing inspired volunteering with the working poor rather than just fighting "the system" by way of keyboard antics and mean online comments . . .

"We have discovered through bitter experience that the promises given to poor white people in the United States are empty, that the promise of a 'secure life in a land of plenty' was an illusion all along. Young poor white people are caught between white supremacy, which demands we succeed under capitalism, and the lack of a future that is becoming more and more evident as poverty rates climb and tent cities and prisons warehouse so many of us. My generation of poor white people, and the generations after us, get to choose: between the empty promises of white supremacy, on the one hand, and solidarity with poor people across race on the other."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Faith Matters Blog: How the often-hidden poor white U.S. population lives -- and dies