Ray, it has never been black and brown people refusing to make common cause with poor whited- it has consistently been poor whites refusing to accept black and brown people as partners in the justice struggle. Your post makes it sound as though black and brown people have turned their noses up at poor whites, when in reality blacks have sought a multiracial working-class alliance at least since the days of the People's Party in the 1890's. The sticking point has always been poor whites refusing to let go of the white supremacism that has always left them out in the cold, refusing to let go of the bitter, self-pitying delusions that they, the poor whites, have it WORSE than black and brown people, tat black and brown people get special favors they, the poor whites are always denied, and that even with that, that black and brown people are both inferior and a mortal threat to them, and not only that, but that somehow black and brown people can never be as "American" as they are.

NONE of that is the fault of black and brown people.