During my conversation with Melissa Corrigan, she/her this afternoon we talked about this clip. For white people, forfeiting their proximity to whiteness is the price of defeating white supremacy.

This has repeatedly happened throughout American history; the Wilmington Massacre of 1898 occurred in large part because of the success of the Fusion movement, in which Black Republicans formed a coalition with poor whites.

Look at what happened to Fred Hampton when he had built a multiracial “Rainbow Coalition” in Chicago with poor and working‑class white folks.

The same with MLK’s Poor People’s Campaign.