Kyle Rittenhouse is a white working class boy whose mother is a nurse assistant who grew up in an apartment in an aging Rust Belt town in the midwest. Rittenhouse is one of nearly 41 million Anglo/white Americans whose families live on less than 200% of the Federal poverty level. That's 21% of all Anglo/whites in the country. At the time…
Kyle Rittenhouse is a white working class boy whose mother is a nurse assistant who grew up in an apartment in an aging Rust Belt town in the midwest. Rittenhouse is one of nearly 41 million Anglo/white Americans whose families live on less than 200% of the Federal poverty level. That's 21% of all Anglo/whites in the country. At the time of the shooting, he was one of 4.4 million Anglo/white males (24%) in that family income group under the age of 18. Given what most nurse assistants make, I'd hazard a guess that his family was on the lower end.
Who cares about people like him? Scranton Joe? Not hardly. No, Scranton Joe was content to call him a white supremacist on the strength of nothing more than the vituperation of partisan jackals on CNN, MSNBC and the NYT opinion column. With a single statement, Scranton Joe communicated a message loud and clear to that mass of 41 million Americans. The degenerate sons and daughters of affluence never get savaged publicly by the POTUS. Nor do the nation's gun-toting delinquents who can lay claim to all-holy POC status. But not Rittenhouse. It's restorative justice for the former, but "throw away the key" (MSNBC) for the latter. That's because Rittenhouse is white trash and that's not the kind of marginality that counts for Scranton Joe and the doyens of liberal opinion.
President Biden's remarks should be deeply offensive to every American who cares about our basic values like the presumption of innocence, fairness and equality before the law. What Biden did in his capacity as POTUS was to take a 17 year hold high school dropout from a poor family and falsely link him with domestic terrorism, Jan. 6 insurrection, and racist white supremacy to serve his own domestic political agenda. It was despicable. The fact that he thought it was okay to do that to someone of Rittenhouse's social and economic class was likely not lost on his fellows. If Democrats think they're going to win elections in the nation's heartland, they can think again.
Kyle Rittenhouse is a white working class boy whose mother is a nurse assistant who grew up in an apartment in an aging Rust Belt town in the midwest. Rittenhouse is one of nearly 41 million Anglo/white Americans whose families live on less than 200% of the Federal poverty level. That's 21% of all Anglo/whites in the country. At the time of the shooting, he was one of 4.4 million Anglo/white males (24%) in that family income group under the age of 18. Given what most nurse assistants make, I'd hazard a guess that his family was on the lower end.
Who cares about people like him? Scranton Joe? Not hardly. No, Scranton Joe was content to call him a white supremacist on the strength of nothing more than the vituperation of partisan jackals on CNN, MSNBC and the NYT opinion column. With a single statement, Scranton Joe communicated a message loud and clear to that mass of 41 million Americans. The degenerate sons and daughters of affluence never get savaged publicly by the POTUS. Nor do the nation's gun-toting delinquents who can lay claim to all-holy POC status. But not Rittenhouse. It's restorative justice for the former, but "throw away the key" (MSNBC) for the latter. That's because Rittenhouse is white trash and that's not the kind of marginality that counts for Scranton Joe and the doyens of liberal opinion.
President Biden's remarks should be deeply offensive to every American who cares about our basic values like the presumption of innocence, fairness and equality before the law. What Biden did in his capacity as POTUS was to take a 17 year hold high school dropout from a poor family and falsely link him with domestic terrorism, Jan. 6 insurrection, and racist white supremacy to serve his own domestic political agenda. It was despicable. The fact that he thought it was okay to do that to someone of Rittenhouse's social and economic class was likely not lost on his fellows. If Democrats think they're going to win elections in the nation's heartland, they can think again.
Extremely well said.
Well said - I have huge
Respect for Bari and what she has done - but Inwish she had mentioned what President Biden did. It was dispocable