Piff Perkins
Veteran
Permanent under class. It's been on track for awhile but various things have made it more likely. The bottom falling out of education post-covid has done a lot of damage in general (including to white people) but man it really killed us.
From a political perspective we have an incoming administration promising to gut federal jobs - one of the most effective assets black people have used to climb into the working and middle classes. Postal workers, airport jobs, etc. And I think we're quickly gonna see the plan was never truly to eliminate the jobs but to transfer those jobs to white men.
Then there's the impending gutting of the Education Department. Guess where most money for students attending HBCUs comes from Pell Grants and scholarships+loans from the DoE.
Both moves seem cleverly crafted to steer as many black people into physical labor as possible. Less government jobs, less education.
From a political perspective we have an incoming administration promising to gut federal jobs - one of the most effective assets black people have used to climb into the working and middle classes. Postal workers, airport jobs, etc. And I think we're quickly gonna see the plan was never truly to eliminate the jobs but to transfer those jobs to white men.
Then there's the impending gutting of the Education Department. Guess where most money for students attending HBCUs comes from Pell Grants and scholarships+loans from the DoE.
Both moves seem cleverly crafted to steer as many black people into physical labor as possible. Less government jobs, less education.