Poor white Southerners harmed by white supremacy should not receive black reparations

Evidence

What about poor white Southerners in states with ties to lynching, where the white poverty rates are higher because of the state’s vile historical ties to murdering the innocent? Research shows that white Americans often oppose safety net programs if they believe black people will benefit. White victims of white supremacy, I argue, should not be eligible for reparations for black people. Instead, they should be at the forefront of the fight to dismantle white supremacy and support black reparations—not asking for a share. They could also stop opposing safety net programs that would financially benefit them. White victims of white supremacy are in the best position to understand the real harm of white supremacy and to fight to dismantle it. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 552

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the reader’s saturated-system harm frame and White populism literature where poor whites vote against their economic interest due to racial resentment. — connects to: White Americans show little support for slavery reparations — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 79; White feminists must forfeit group privilege to earn black women’s trust
• QUESTION: Brown’s argument that proximity-to-blackness victims should press the state but get no reparations — is there a risk this concedes the ‘reverse discrimination’ objection’s framing?