HALF CANNONBALL! I picked this audio book off the shelf at a library wine tasting because of it’s catchy Title. I mean, how can you see the glaring title, “White Trash,” and not be intrigued? And I haven’t listened to an audio book in a while, so it seemed like a good idea. And it was, mostly. White Trash chronologically unpacks the history of white poverty in America from the 1600s to 2012. Isenberg begins with the English penal colonies where the British government literally rounded […]
“When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win”
Thanks again to SisterCoyote for my White Trash gift exchange! “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” That Lyndon B Johnson quote, featured in White Trash, floated around the Internet in the weeks following Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton and it helped many people sum up their feelings about last year’s election. This logic is not unlike the […]