Mechele Dickerson

Okay, so which workers are we talking about?

Are we talking about all workers or do you have a certain profile of a worker in mind?

What made me actually think that I was sort of onto something here, because I've been writing this book for an eternity, but it was before the 2016 election, we heard all of this, oh, the angry middle class,

And Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were talking about how much they love the middle class and the angst of the middle class.

And then I kept asking, so exactly which middle class are we talking about here?

Because it is absolutely true.

Absolutely true.

That there is economic inequality and that there is anxiety.

There's economic anxiety.

But that has been true for Black and Latino workers for forever.

And the shift that we're seeing now is the same way that the Black and Latino middle class has been treated is the way the entire middle class is being treated.

And if we can get lower and middle income workers to say, this is not tribalism.

This is not people that don't look like us.

We are all being treated the same way.

None of us can afford to send our kids to college.

None of us can find a 40 hour full time job where we are called an employee.

And none of us can find affordable housing either.

And again, I'll answer this with someone with the story with the same course that I taught.

I was saying something in class and a student said something about either Medicaid or AFDC.

And I said, oh, no, no, no, no.