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🇺🇸 **Defining “White Trash”**
"_Taylor writes that the term “white trash” emerged after the Civil War, used by white elites to disparage poor whites who worked alongside Black laborers as sharecroppers and tenant farmers._"
@Sassinake What does the acronym 'PoCs' stand for?
@bibliolater
People of Colour. Includes basically anyone not English White.
Cracker and white trash is what slavers called whites who didn't own slaves.
@bibliolater
a way to humiliate poor folks and keep them from joining together and forming unions with PoCs.
Divide and conquer