White is really the new black

White folks took a savage beating at the hands of Kevin Williamson in the National Review.  A journal of white supremacy since its founding by William F. Buckley in the 1950s, most of its commentary has supported the notion that "those people" are somehow inferior to "us".  Forget 350 years of slavery, Jim Crow segregation and discrimination.    Somehow, blacks should use their bootstraps to pick themselves up and become pre-rape Bill Cosbys or in a more modern take, Kanye Wests.  Now, Williamson bad mouths poor whites and the post industrial wastelands many inhabit.  Referring to "hardscrabble upstate New York", he opines that these communities should just die.  I live in hardscrabble upstate New York and I have seen the poor white trash he wishes would disappear.  Heroin is rife in this area, and what passes for parenting skills for many is giving their teenagers the address of the local social services office.   Unfortunately, many of these kids will never have a chance at a middle class life because a lack of good paying jobs over decades in this area have locked them out of a virtuous cycle where the previous generation shows their children how hard work pays off.  Funny how blacks and other people of color are denigrated for the same failings.  Only in their case it is used to bleat about racial inferiority.  Now we find that whites in similar circumstances wind up with the same results; broken families, drug addiction and men in prison.  When Detroit was the automobile capital of the world, there was a fairly prosperous black working and middle class.  Remove the auto jobs and what happened?  The same is true in many industrial towns in  upstate NY.  The only difference is the color of the inhabitants.  Maybe the government policies and corporate greed which turned these areas into wastelands are the real problem.