Super Mrs. C.
2 min readApr 9, 2022

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Your unending zeal to promote class as more salient than "race" in the US occasionally undermines the information which you provide and which you believe buttresses your case. There's so much here to parse that I hardly know where to begin.

First, your last two paragraphs are nonsensical. I, too, read the article which discussed how white support for COVID remedies waned after learning that blacks and other people of color were more affected than whites. It doesn't matter what the cause of the disparities was; it's that once it was demonstrated that more blacks than whites suffered ill effects, then whites didn't care that the illness was treated aggressively because it was not about them.

You either missed the point entirely, or you deliberately misrepresented it. In fact, your explanation of those "racial disparities" as being disproportionately attributable to class is not something the article mentioned. (At least not the one I read.) That is information that you added yourself. It is aside from the article and has no relevance to it. However, people who did not read the report themselves, in some venue or other, would not know that.

Your last sentence, that "identitarians" are acting out of ignorance, refutes arguments you have made previously about "identitarian" motives. You claim that they very deliberately hide class under the shield of race. You can't be both deliberate and ignorant about taking the same action simultaneously. As for "...the rest," if you're talking about people who discuss race, there is nothing we want more than to see the white working class unite. We want it to unite so that it can see what it has in common with victims of racism and how the uber class uses their racism against them.

I am both black and upper-middle class. I am fortunate enough to enjoy some privileges that many people in the world, of every color, do not enjoy. Even then, I am not "needlessly afraid" of racism, police violence, or societal disrespect. I am sensibly afraid of it because I have been its victim, and I know why I have been its victim. In fact, middle and upper-class blacks understand that they are often the target of racism because they are resented as being out of their class. If you are black, then your class is secondary to your caste, which is determined by your skin color. If you believe that our argument is truly attempting to conflate or confuse "race" with class, then review your recordings of Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson's farcical nomination hearings. Do that, and then try to convince me, and millions of other folks, black, brown, white, and other, that they weren't about race. Good luck. Or should I say "More-luck?"

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Super Mrs. C.
Super Mrs. C.

Written by Super Mrs. C.

Retired teacher. Humorous essayist about Life. Serious essayist about politics and “race.” Aspiring world saver. Cat mama. We can do better than this.

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