Malia Obama is a smart, pretty young woman with a famous last name and powerful, millionaire parents. If you think she is worse off than poor people just because she has a hypothetical 15% more likely chance of some cop being unnecessarily rude to her, then I have to disagree. In reality, people are not statistics. They are individuals subject to an infinite combination of hardships. Being the President's daughter transcends race. When you lump a bunch of different people into boxes and tell them that they are all the same as everyone else in their box, you are "other-izing" the world.
All that is true.
But my point wasn't really about Malia Obama. I was really just that example to say that there is a difference between races in this country. That difference is evident in poverty, healthcare, and criminal justice. Individual people are not statistics, this is true, but the aggregate combined with U.S. history tells the tale.
The idea of thinking of the white working class as some special, vulnerable group does not jive with reality. It seems like just another way of pushing white supremacy. "Hey- other groups are improving from total disenfranchisement and poverty, and now we have to COMPETE with them?!? Somebody call Trump!"
