re: #25 Blind Frog Belly White

“pampered white man bullshit”

My brother in Seattle and I were discussing this yesterday. He works for Boeing, and I’m a retired teacher. We see another angle in the white supremacist movement that gets very little attention. We think some of their frustration and anger comes from witnessing more and more POC, American Muslims and Jews, and LGBTQ citizens becoming more successful than they are. We took a page from their playbook, followed its directions, and moved up the socioeconomic ladder. I remember my parents insisting that education would be essential to my future. This occurred while I was growing up under Jim Crow in GA. They, my grandparents, neighbors, ministers, and church members drilled this into our heads. Many of us acted on this advice, educated ourselves, became employed in well-paying jobs, bought nice homes, etc. while many in the white supremacist movement saw little value in educating themselves beyond high school. Society was changing, but they weren’t, and now, years later, they look at the aforementioned groups and wonder how/why we got ahead of them. They don’t seem to understand that they screwed themselves. We didn’t screw them. They had become accustomed to being able to get good jobs with only high school diplomas, and in quite a few cases, with less than a high school education. We, on the other hand, worked within the system, and are now in a better socioeconomic position than they are, and they can’t stand it. They don’t address this in their rants, the media doesn’t address it, either, but my brother and I are thinking that upward mobility of the aforementioned groups has something to do with the alleged problem they have with members of these groups. I could be wrong, but I think this angle is worthy of further investigation, at least, from my perspective.