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<blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 4988509" data-attributes="member: 66082">In America, your class status as a white person is in part based on your promixmity to black Americans.&nbsp; Meaning, a white person can be living in very very poor economic conditions, but to many white people, a white person doesn&#039;t truly hit the bottom of class until they are forced to live near black Americans.&nbsp;&nbsp; I remember reading this book titled evicted, and it was about how being evicted from one&#039;s home causes tremendous harm to peoples&#039; lives.&nbsp; It was based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.In the book, there was a trailer park with such poor living conditions that it was condemned, and a huge part of the fear of some of these very very poor white residents was that closing that trailer park would force them to seek housing where black people lived and to them that would truly be hitting rock bottom.This class only analysis that the world is workers vs owners, capitlists vs everyone is foolish and incomplete. People have identities that they care about.&nbsp; Identities that they inheritied.&nbsp; Whole societies based on these identities having a hierarchal relationship to one another. Many people believe their material conditions are tied into how their &quot;group&quot; is doing in comparison to other groups.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="refineryworker05, post: 4988509, member: 66082"] In America, your class status as a white person is in part based on your promixmity to black Americans. Meaning, a white person can be living in very very poor economic conditions, but to many white people, a white person doesn't truly hit the bottom of class until they are forced to live near black Americans. I remember reading this book titled evicted, and it was about how being evicted from one's home causes tremendous harm to peoples' lives. It was based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In the book, there was a trailer park with such poor living conditions that it was condemned, and a huge part of the fear of some of these very very poor white residents was that closing that trailer park would force them to seek housing where black people lived and to them that would truly be hitting rock bottom. This class only analysis that the world is workers vs owners, capitlists vs everyone is foolish and incomplete. People have identities that they care about. Identities that they inheritied. Whole societies based on these identities having a hierarchal relationship to one another. Many people believe their material conditions are tied into how their "group" is doing in comparison to other groups. [/QUOTE]

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