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Where’s the empathy for black poverty and pain?

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That indifference toward the well-being of blacks, and to a larger extent, people of color in the United States, arguably continues today, particularly in how the media frames the struggles of whites who are suffering from suicide and drug abuse at record rates. President Donald Trump won his campaign, in part, on the promise of bringing hope back to ‘the silent majority,’ a large swath of mainly white working-class Americans who feel they have been left behind by trade policies like NAFTA and have watched their manufacturing jobs disappear. But the administration’s rhetoric about blacks, Muslims and Latinos has focused mostly on crime in the ‘inner cities,’ ‘criminal aliens’ attacking native-born Americans and ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ as the scourge of our nation. The economic anxiety facing black and brown workers, while arguably more profound, has been largely sidelined.”

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