Will Shetterly
Aug 23, 2021

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When race reductionists look at police killings, they ignore the fact that almost everyone killed by the police is poor. Since police killings and US poverty are racially proportionate, that means there is no white privilege for poor whites when it comes to being killed by the police—middle and upper class blacks are far more privileged in that particular case. That's why accurate statistics include class.

This might interest you: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/08/26/beware-race-reductionist

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Will Shetterly
Will Shetterly

Written by Will Shetterly

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