Maine’s Graham Platner Has Discovered a Secret: Poor Whites Exist!
Cristiana Gigina
In a hoarse baritone loud enough to be heard over a squall, oysterman Graham Platner said it. Poverty. The unsayable word. Was that so hard? Evidently, yes. To understand just what a taboo Platner is breaking it’s crucial to understand that, for at least two decades, both right and left have converged on a dangerous policy of folding all low-income white Americans into a raceless “working class.” Year after year, our collective inability to see poor people as anything but Black —citing what
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