Among the five living men who have served as president, Barack Obama has the most favorable image and Joe Biden the least favorable.
Among the five living men who have served as president, Barack Obama has the most favorable image and Joe Biden the least favorable.
They would prefer to live in a literal cave as long as black people have to live in smaller caves in the mountain on the far side.
I just learned that W.E.B. Du Bois pointed this out in 1935 in terms of why poor whites in the Reconstruction-era South preferred to side with the white landowners who exploited them rather than their fellow workers who happened to be black. People would rather feel superior than actually pursue a better life for everyone. It’s come to be called The Wages of Whiteness.
Dubois contributed a lot to labor aristocracy theory.