Will, this is excellent writing and very interesting, thank you. I've always wondered about poor white people vs middle class and wealthy POC and what disadvantages they may experience. Clearly the frothy-mouthed political argument on both sides has lost sight of the facts that matter, and will not want to hear your stats. I have not fact-checked your stats but I do believe we have a class war that is probably more meaningful than the race inequality that grabs most of our bandwidth. America is not a wealthy country. Most Americans live in appalling conditions. The bottom 50% of our population has no privilege at all - they live in a broken country that cares not at all about them. Why not sell them a story about racism so they can be distracted from their misery.