African American

There's a book out there entitled "How The Irish Became White" by Noel Ignatiev. He argues that, for Irish immigrants in the 19th Century, the price of admission to the white coalition was an embrace of white supremacy. His argument, too complex to analyze here, is persuasive, but the same argument works for Italians, Jews, Poles, Greeks and the rest of the Europeans who came to this country. The first step, of course, is to blame the victim. African-Americans living in New York, are poor because of a defect or character flaw. West Virginia coal miners, on the other hand, are victims of reverse racism.
Praise the Lord and pass the chicken.