Thread by @ashtonpittman

As a white man from rural Mississippi, it's just bizarre watching all these newspapers around the country treat white right-wingers like exotic zoo animals who require study.

https://twitter.com/sewellchan/status/1327644697720811520

When is the last time a newspaper dedicated its letters page to Black women who vote Democratic?

Or to trans people marginalized by Trump's policies?

Or to people at risk of losing heath coverage?

Or to the homeless?

Or to prisoners of victimless crimes?

Understand them!

Honestly, if you want to understand white Trump voters, Black organizers and leaders in the South oftentimes understand them better than they understand themselves, because Black southerners have HAD to understand how whiteness thinks.

White folks are rarely asked to self-examine that much & often give less-than introspective answers that feel good.

Many white people who vote for racist or sexist policies have stories they tell themselves about noble reasons for doing so & avoid prodding their real motives.

Fannie Lou Hamer: "White Americans today don't know what to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake. If they had put us in front, they wouldn't have let us look back. But they put us behind them & we watched every move they made." (1971)

I wonder if @latimesopinion has advice on how I should approach an email like this. Perhaps I haven't spent enough time listening to people like this to understand why they hate me and would like for me to kill myself. Maybe I give him a full page spread?

https://twitter.com/ashtonpittman/status/1328020067636965376