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guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
Fri Jun 29, 2018, 07:31 PM Jun 2018

What does a racist look like?

From the article:

A MOVEMENT — and a moment — has made it possible for breakthroughs on the question of racism in the U.S. working class, even among white workers typically suspected of deep racism.
A video interview of truck drivers left stranded by Pittsburgh street protests in the wake of Antwon Rose’s murder by city police has the internet’s jaw dropping. Action News reporter Beau Berman talked to Gene and Robert as protesters blocked traffic on a Pittsburgh highway. The punchline of the story, watchers were surprised to find, was that the two white, bearded truck drivers stood unequivocally on the side of the protesters.
Early in the interview, one of the truck drivers says, “The officer was dead wrong — and he took a life. A life that shouldn’t have been taken.”


To read more:

https://socialistworker.org/2018/06/29/what-does-a-racist-look-like
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What does a racist look like? (Original Post) guillaumeb Jun 2018 OP
I know too many decent white people from different classes malaise Jun 2018 #1
AMEN!! uponit7771 Jun 2018 #3
Um BBQ Becky worked for Stanford as an environental engineer Permit Patty a business entrepreneur lunasun Jun 2018 #2

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
2. Um BBQ Becky worked for Stanford as an environental engineer Permit Patty a business entrepreneur
Fri Jun 29, 2018, 08:00 PM
Jun 2018

has two master’s degrees, one in urban planning, was an equity trader, a Brookings Institution researcher and CEO of a medical marijuana business.

What do they have to do with these truck drivers aka blue collar workers again ?

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