re: #4 Destro

It’s a good criticism. But it is a historic fact poor whites are treated slightly better than blacks in the Southern socio-economic system.

That’s part of how race is used as a tool to control workers. Divide and conquer. If there’s solidarity across all races, it would be, as Lind asserts, essentially about class. In a way, it is essentially about class, but to deny the centrality of race as a tool in the class system is wrong, especially in a discussion of the southern US. Makes me think Lind has his own agenda on the issues.