White economic privilege is alive and well despite its perceived loss
Washington
IS the white working class losing economic ground because of policies intended to improve the lives of black people? Anxiety and resentment among some white voters about those policies certainly seemed to benefit Donald Trump's campaign last year, with its populist, ethnonationalist message.
The problem with this belief is that it is false. The income gap between black and white working-class Americans, similar to the gap between black and white Americans at every income le…
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