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Feb. 8th, 2011 04:07 pmThe Silent Majority in the 1970s:
"It is so incredibly hard to be white and have money! We are oppressed by your efforts to desegregate our schools by bussing children. Oppressed, we say!"
I just want to reach through the page and smack them, really I do. One guy actually said, "I think it is time the law abiding, tax paying white middle class started looking to the federal government for something besides oppression." Because the middle class has always suffered terrible persecution at the hands of the government, you know? Also, only the white middle class is law abiding and tax paying, apparently.
"It is so incredibly hard to be white and have money! We are oppressed by your efforts to desegregate our schools by bussing children. Oppressed, we say!"
I just want to reach through the page and smack them, really I do. One guy actually said, "I think it is time the law abiding, tax paying white middle class started looking to the federal government for something besides oppression." Because the middle class has always suffered terrible persecution at the hands of the government, you know? Also, only the white middle class is law abiding and tax paying, apparently.
