![]() ![]() The key message here is: White Americans have been fooled into believing in a zero-sum paradigm. ![]() Why on earth would white people act against their own interests in this way? Because they believe that gains to Black people come at a cost to them. And, yet, the vast majority of white Americans voted for an unapologetically pro-rich, climate-change denier in the last election cycle, who’s demonstrated that he’ll only exacerbate these problems. Trapped by economic insecurity, crumbling public facilities, and environmental crises, most Americans are under strain. In today’s America, many people find themselves in as desperate a situation as those crabs. But, instead, they keep pulling each other down in a blur of thrashing pincers, going absolutely nowhere. If the crabs climbed onto each other’s backs, they could easily scale the walls of the bucket. Imagine a bucket full of crabs desperately trying to escape to freedom. ![]()
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