Amanda

I can't get out of my head this political cartoon that has this old white guy at the end of a table and he has a plate with just a mountain of cookies, just overflowing cookies.

And he's looking at two people across from each other.

One is a construction worker.

He has two cookies on his plate.

Across from him is an immigrant with one cookie on his plate.

And the gentleman with the pile of cookies is sticking his finger at the construction worker and saying –

Look out, he's gonna take your cookie.

This is the state of our union.

How did we fall for this?

How did this story go that instead of the two guys across from each other teaming up and saying, we're taking your fucking cookies.

Why do you have so many cookies?

They are fighting with each other

over there, not enough cookies that they're going to have to divvy up.

How did that happen?

I mean, I know sort of how it happened.

It's the same thing you brought up enslavement.

It's the same thing when poor white people started to actually look around and say, wait, these enslaved people are more aligned to us than the enslavers.

and we should fight for something better, then they started doling out whiteness.

Then they started doling out the benefits and the privileges of that to make it just a little bit better, the same way that you think that you might be closer to being a billionaire if you just hold on a little tighter.

There are so many more of us.