A pleasant surprise to find a reference and link to Karine Polwart,whom I've followed for a while. She and I both appear in a BBC Northern Ireland TV documentary series, albeit quite separately and in different episodes.
When I was a carpenter I worked side by side with Ivy League graduates and it always struck me that the term working class was as malleable as many of the materials we built with. Whites can travel up and down the class ladder and define it for ourselves but there may never come a day when we see that privilege afforded to brown and black skinned people (and certain religions by extension). Thus the failure of this experiment called melting pot.
A pleasant surprise to find a reference and link to Karine Polwart,whom I've followed for a while. She and I both appear in a BBC Northern Ireland TV documentary series, albeit quite separately and in different episodes.
When I was a carpenter I worked side by side with Ivy League graduates and it always struck me that the term working class was as malleable as many of the materials we built with. Whites can travel up and down the class ladder and define it for ourselves but there may never come a day when we see that privilege afforded to brown and black skinned people (and certain religions by extension). Thus the failure of this experiment called melting pot.