Law in Contemporary Society

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On "White Supremacy"

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 But while the culture embraces nonwhites it has little interest in these peoples’ unique perspectives – it simply wants a new face on the same worldview. In 2004 Henry Louis Gates commented how the majority of Harvard’s black population was African or West Indian (and of course our first black president is half-white/half-Kenyan), while our most prominent Hispanic politician opposes the DREAM Act. "Diversity" initiatives are most interested in finding those of different races who are willing to and do act like the ruling class. A subgroup with a culture and history of its own embedded so far in its collective memory – as African-Americans have – is the least likely to give. And the least likely to get much accommodation in return.
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<		What makes poor whites “trash,” then, is that they don’t take advantage of what’s been handed to them. Without ever facing de jure discrimination, they’ve been allowed all this time to be one of elite class but haven’t put down their hunting rifles and Kid Rock CDs long enough to do so. But poor whites with no motivation to leave their community – poor whites who are raised to look at the supreme culture as an enemy, not a community easily joined – have much in common with the nonwhite groups struggling against the supreme culture. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Kid Rock has a collaboration with Ludacris.
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>		What makes poor whites “trash,” then, is that they don’t take advantage of what’s been handed to them. Without ever facing de jure discrimination, they’ve been allowed all this time to be one of elite class but haven’t put down their hunting rifles and Kid Rock CDs long enough to do so. But poor whites with no motivation to leave their community – poor whites who are raised to look at the supreme culture as an enemy, not a community easily joined – have much in common with the nonwhite groups struggling against the supreme culture. It should come as no surprise that Kid Rock has a collaboration with Ludacris.
 

*All data pulled from the U.S. Census Bureau’s “American Factfinder” website.


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