Make America White Trash Again?

Once again, I began my gentle morning by being sucked into some knee-jerk internet headline. Today's nonsense story involved some no-name congressional candidate in  rural Tennessee, who thought it would be a grand idea to pay for a giant racist billboard!

It stated: 'Make America White Again!' In other words, before those pesky immigrants came trotting in, white skinned folk had no problems whatsoever!!
My goodness.

I always have one simple answer to these white supremacist types:
Please, please spend a week at a white trash trailer park, encampment, or back woods whatever. (Or since it is habituated by the 'awesome whites', shall we call it a resort??)

Lucky for me, I got to spend a few years working with the 'great American white folks' of rural Mat-Su Borough up in Alaska. Yes, with the permanent school bus dwelling, plywood home building, meth lab producing grand Americans.

At first, as a naïve young person, I thought I could help them through social service programs... How about building accessible features to their trailers? Providing teeth (yes, did this with a grant). Encourage job programs?...But no, nothing helped. The sad truth is, that there is an underbelly of society. (Regardless of your skin color!) Those that have been brought up with so much dysfunction, disability, lack of health care, sanitation and disregard for education that it is impossible to even know how to help them.

Can any white supremacist explain, how whole neighborhoods of "white folks" can wind up hooked on Doritos and drugs, leaving babies in diapers for days at a time, living under blue tarps-- all without any interest whatsoever in accessing running water to bathe ? Why the abusers and pedophiles, violent criminals and arsonists were all white, white, white....

Can't blame the job market--Alaska has the most opportunities you will ever find...Or even the immigrants--they aren't exactly taking over the area either...Welfare state? I say "ha", these folks could barely find the office of children's services, let alone fill out an application...

I challenge any supremacist to please figure out how to help the lost white folks, before running around announcing that lack of pigmentation leads to greatness...