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Brian Kelly
Billy Mitchell has drawn the parallel recently in the Blanket between the so-called 'poor white trash' of the American South and the Protestant working class here in the north. And in many ways it is an analogy that fits: callously abandoned in social and economic terms by the rulers of a society to which they have so enthusiastically proclaimed their loyalty over many, many years; sneered at, manipulated by, and regarded with a mixture of pity and contempt by "respectable" elements in their "own community"; and diverted from pursuing joint struggle alongside their fellow workers from the Falls or the Short Strand by their entanglement in a deep-rooted, reactionary historical tradition, like the Southern white working class during the civil rights era they are too easily held up as "the culprits" in the recent upsurge of sectarian barbarism. [Full Article]
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