> America’s underlying racism has a continuing distorting impact. A majority of the low-wage sector is white, with blacks and Latinos making up the other part,

> America’s underlying racism has a continuing distorting impact. A majority of the low-wage sector is white, with blacks and Latinos making up the other part, but politicians learned to talk as if the low-wage sector is mostly black because it allowed them to appeal to racial prejudice, which is useful in maintaining support for the structure of the dual economy — and hurting everyone in the low-wage sector. Temin notes that “the desire to preserve the inferior status of blacks has motivated policies against all members of the low-wage sector.” Contrary to what this paragraph implies, this is a misperception that both parties exploit. All too often does the left claim that white privilege lets one go through life on easy-mode [1]. [1] https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/07/bernie-sanders/bernie-sanders-wrong-say-when-youre-white-you-dont/ https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar...