He's talking about Fox News viewer's perception of Black Americans.

Except Oprah

No, not the Willie Horton of the Detroit Tigers.

The Willie Horton who scares white voters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Horton

I'm going to have to apologize for not realizing how unrelievedly downtrodden she was all the years we worked together.

because that fits their white privilege inner narrative. People that work at real jobs see AA colleagues who are doing ok - good economicly (sp?) and who are intelligent. Hard to be that biased when you every day experience shows you something far different.

Thanks for your post, though.

Jabbing at the white folks like Trump who've likely never been exposed to black middle class.

in a false attempt to recognize the existence of and issues among those most in need (26% poverty rate among AAs), they neglect to note the other 74% who don't fall into whatever ridiculous categories that they decide to define, per this Dog-Whistler-in-Chief.

What DOES happen with the 74% not defined as "in poverty" is that they are treated no different than the 26% because of the generationally ingrained and persistent racism. I.e., a billionaire like Oprah or Michael Jordan is treated as badly as a homeless drug addict who is need of assistance.

He needs to look at the 75% on food stamps - i.e., those who are in the non-AA communities, and then ask - why did this happen and how can it be fixed? Or take a look at this -



or this -



-and ask why?

The "media" outlets are not located in these isolated rural areas so they only manage to capture images of and write stories about these folks a couple times a year. But since they ARE located in the urban areas where POC tend to live, they put those nearest to them under a microscope that not only magnifies their issues but also misses by a mile, the forest for the trees.

How about the right to vote?

Growing up in the 60's and 70's all my parents friends had jobs, owned cars and lived in nice neighborhoods. I never knew anyone personally who lived in the projects until high school when I dated a white guy who sent me a card in the mail and his return address was the projects. My Dad told me to not date him anymore. I saw him a couple more times and dropped him. After high school I ran into him and he had become a hells angel!

Ditto. Trump is not talking to me. Hell, he's not even talking about me. I have no personal recognition of the stereotype he's portrayed for his white racist followers. We weren't "required" to have a degree, but we were strongly encouraged to do so, and nearly all of us did. I don't know who his black advisors are, but they should be ashamed. That "outreach" speech sounded like he watched a bad episode of Good Times, and wrote a third grade report about it.