Ho! I’m glad I caught this L J because you didn’t @me. I knew you were going to pull out the white guns!

This is great. I’m educated, so, no worries, I can take with a grain of salt. Thanks for writing this.

So hm …

Also, upper/upper middle class whites will not buy used underwear or shoes.

This is pretty funny, only because I used to date a white American, and his family was very strange economically and class-wise. I couldn’t really figure it out. I think both sides of his family were plagued by alcoholism and were of the lower class, but his mom and dad also worked their way into money so … I guess seeing that clash real-time was weird. His mom didn’t mind shopping second-hand. Not underwear because yuck, but second-hand nonetheless. My ex had a low-class, all-accepting kind of vibe (because his dad was closeted gay), but he was also very subconscious elitist and privileged.

I wonder in terms of race … do you think a white person of money and a black person of money would be seen as more preferable than a white person of money with a white person with no money?

I know you’re not the white messiah, LJ (laughing), but I also wonder how whites of different cultures and ethnicities see one another?

I’ve often heard of other white-skinned ethnicities speak disparagingly of white Americans, but I wonder if white Americans have more of a longing to be accepted by Europeans, etc. than the other way around?

When you talk of your grandmothers … oh my. Isn’t class always tied to economics?

So interesting. 💖