🇺🇸 **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._"
a way to humiliate poor folks and keep them from joining together and forming unions with PoCs.
Divide and conquer
@bibliolater
People of Colour. Includes basically anyone not English White.