White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy

“Reverend Barber is an amazing person who carries on Martin Luther King’s vision. In the late 1960s, before Martin Luther King was murdered, he was getting poor people around the country, of all different colors, to come together to advocate for anti-poverty programs. Reverend Barber has carried that forward. He’s been running the Poor People’s Campaign for a couple of decades now. He goes around the country to interview people and get them organized, to talk about the experience of poverty, to make sure that it’s on the national stage and in the national conversation…He shows the deep damage of that myth — that white people are not poor, or that white people’s poverty is different than Black people’s poverty. It’s the same type of poverty. It’s the same experience. But a lot of white people get convinced that the policies and programs that harm them are not harmful because they think it only pertains to Black people.” Read more...

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