white poor

is chained by the weight of discrimination though its badge of degradation does not mark them.

The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of discrimination though its badge of degradation does not mark them. It corrupts their lives, frustrates their opportunities and withers their education. In one sense it is more evil for them because it has confused so many by prejudice that they have supported their own oppressors.

is more pitiable than the negro poor insofar as racial prejudice has been made use of to trick them into supporting their own oppressors.

white poor, n.All

white poor