Most working- and middle-class white Americans don’t feel that they have been particularly privileged by their race. Their experience is the immigrant experience - as far as they’re concerned, no one’s handed them anything, they’ve built it from scratch. They’ve worked hard all their lives, many times only to see their jobs shipped overseas or their pension dumped after a lifetime of labor.

For all the good it’s doing me, the people running things could be black Jewish women. I know there are advantages to being a white man, but being in charge definitely isn’t one of them.

But in this case, it’s actually true, even if it isn’t us specifically.

I’m pretty sure that if I had any say in runnings things. that they’d be different.