World’s Richest Dumbest Billionaire and the Essential Avatar of ‘Whiteness’

<p>T<strong>his is an excerpt from a more comprehensive piece I wrote on the&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://gayleleslie.medium.com/p/5e2df7f8c550" rel="noopener"><strong>banality of &lsquo;whiteness.&rsquo;</strong></a></p> <p>I&rsquo;d thought to write a piece on the cascade of uber wealthy saying the quiet part out loud in recent weeks, telling us &mdash; to our faces &mdash; that all those decades of working people &lsquo;complaining&rsquo; about the institutional racism, misogyny and classism that we intuited were keeping us on our knees, unable to prosper, to move forward, to thrive &mdash; all the reasons, the excuses these self-congratulatory gatekeepers had for not treating working folks with dignity, let alone paying them &mdash; was all in our heads. That all &lsquo;we the people&rsquo; had to do was work harder, be sweeter and stop complaining and that we would be fine.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@gayleleslie/worlds-richest-dumbest-billionaire-and-the-essential-avatar-of-whiteness-84b024bbd37d?source=tag_recommended_feed---------225-84----------white_privilege----------432093d2_e230_47ac_aca0_48e363d0232a-------"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>
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