The worst thing to be in American probably isn’t being black. Being poor black is tough. If your going to be poor black, you probably want to be rural so you have a better chance of surviving your youth. Born poor and black is hard.
The worst possible thing to be is being born poor, white, and rural. You got nothing, nobody cares, nobody looks at you as wanted. The city people don’t want you, the corporations and schools don’t want you, business get no breaks for hiring you. You can be smart, hard working, but your chances of leaving your rural environment are low even with these traits. You can get an education, but your not going to get a single break because you are white. Nobody wants another hard working white guy at the companies, they need to fill other quotas. This is why you see so many rural kids, and rural poor kids, in the armed forces.
I in my old age, have grown weary at the ‘divisive’ nature of the modern ‘race baiters’. The belief that the system is still present for people to overcome being color and birth status has actually grown. Virtually every American I speak to believes that people can ‘take care of themselves if they want to’ by hard work. That has always been the real miracle of the Republic and it’s Constitution. The socialists grow ever closer to destroying that dream because they have convinced so many that you can’t ‘make it’ by hard work.
I despise the lie that is the basic premise of Socialists in the United States, and say “Yes, you can take care of yourself if your willing to work hard and not think of yourself as oppressed”.
JD Vance somehow became a success anyways. Even with his mom being a drug addict!