[rayiner]

Voting for someone is power every citizen has. That’s a very attenuated power that doesn’t give people meaningful power over other people.

You want to talk about racial wealth inequality? Rural white Trump voters don’t have any power over that, Wall Street and Silicon Valley do.

You want to talk about police in American cities shooting unarmed Black men? Trump supporters in rural Minnesota had no say over the Minneapolis police department that employed Derek Chauvin, or the mayor that supervised him.

You want to talk about lack of education and opportunities? Who has control over the schools in Wilmington, DE, where I used to live? Not Trump voters in rural Delaware. Who destroyed the port city’s economy, creating concentrated Black poverty downtown, by shipping Pennsylvania manufacturing jobs up the river over to China? It wasn’t rural white people.

Whatever the condemnable personal prejudices of these people, they have little power to actually hurt Black and brown people as a whole group.

[random314]

> Whatever the condemnable personal prejudices of these people, they have little power to actually hurt Black and brown people as a whole group.

Except, of course, putting Trump and Stephen Miller in power.