Ken Burch
2 min readFeb 5, 2021

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Thank you for your civil, respectful reply.

I agree that BIPOC deserve better than the allies they have, and that a multiracial working class alliance is needed. If BIPOC themselves aren't seeking that now- they have sought it frequently in the past, in Dr. King's Poor People's Campaign and in the two different concepts of the Rainbow Coalition that emerged in different decades- the from-below model in that was tried in Chicago in the Fred Hampton era, and then the vision articulated at times, though inconsistently, in Jesse Jackson's presidential campaigns- it's largely, from what I can see, due to a sense that attempting such a coalition is futile- that poor whites have been too successfully propagandized into believing, paradoxically, that BIPOC people have it better than they and that whiteness, in itself. gives them social standing far enough above BIPOC people that it would be silly for them as poor whites, to aligh with those they both unjustly envy and unjustly look down on.

To get to the conversation on race and class we need to have in this county. the conversation that can finally undo the "Pied Piper" like control white supremacism has over poor whites. a form of control currently manifesting in the bizarre spectacle of some of the poorest people in the country rallying being and financially donating from their own meager funds to a supposedly wealthy. arrogant and dismissive fraud who believes they owe him everything and he owes them nothing- we're going to have to something along the lines of mass deprogramming- deprogramming of the sort that will be needed if the current regime of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea finally collapses and the population there has to be taught how to make their own decisions.

How do you think we can find the way to do that?

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Ken Burch
Ken Burch

Written by Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.

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