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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat does a racist look like?
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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 Roses murder by city police has the internets 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 shouldnt have been taken.
A video interview of truck drivers left stranded by Pittsburgh street protests in the wake of Antwon Roses murder by city police has the internets 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 shouldnt have been taken.
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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
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malaise
(269,365 posts)1. I know too many decent white people from different classes
to buy into stereotypes
lunasun
(21,646 posts)2. Um BBQ Becky worked for Stanford as an environental engineer Permit Patty a business entrepreneur
has two masters 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 ?