The fact that its grievance politics doesn't mean the grievances are not real. It just means you have demagogues taking advantage of said grievances. It's been

The fact that its grievance politics doesn't mean the grievances are not real. It just means you have demagogues taking advantage of said grievances. It's been said that riots are the voice of people who feel absolutely disempowered. I very much agree, and I think it applies equally well to BLM riots as it does to white working class people voting for Trump. Both are protesting a sense of total political disempowerment and being ignored and left behind, but in different ways. My favorite quote from the 2016 election was along the lines of "I can't throw a Molotov cocktail through the window of the White House, but I can throw a Trump." A large number of avid Trump supporters viewed him as a human brick to throw through the window of what they view as an elite establishment that is absolutely dismissive of them. America is classist and Plutocratic more than it is racist. Poor and working class urban blacks and poor and working class rural whites are both underclasses, and the fact that they are poor is more significant than their ethnicity. A wealthy black person, especially if they live in a top-tier city, is quite a bit "whiter" in America than a poor white person.