‘Elites Not Only Benefit From Racism, but Use Racism to Their Advantage’ | FAIR
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Janine Jackson: In a conversation about white supremacy, sometimes references to class are deflections from the irreducibility of anti-black racism. But sometimes ignoring class divisions among whites is itself a kind of deflection. What are you looking to convey in this latest article?
Keri Leigh Merritt: I think the most important thing is not letting poor working class whites off the hook in any way for their racism, but just trying to understand the ways in which elites not only benefit from racism, but use racism to their advantage. Long history of this throughout America, particularly in the labor sector—bosses long keeping black and white workers apart, engendering racism, using blacks as strikebreakers, things like that. So it’s more, not letting lower classes off the hook, but bringing middle and upper class whites onto the hook for racism as well, and their part in it.
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