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The book discusses the staggering statistics of poverty in America, how it has long been misrepresented, and the need for politicians to pay attention to this huge portion of the population. The author believes that poverty is unnecessary and abolishable in the richest nation in the world.
My guest tonight, he is a Protestant minister, social activist, Yale Divinity School professor whose latest book is called White Poverty, How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct Americ...
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The book discusses the staggering statistics of poverty in America, how it has long been misrepresented, and the need for politicians to pay attention to this huge portion of the population. The author believes that poverty is unnecessary and abolishable in the richest nation in the world.
My guest tonight, he is a Protestant minister, social activist, Yale Divinity School professor whose latest book is called White Poverty, How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy. Please welcome to the show, Reverend Dr. William Barber.
So, and my people are free people in Eastern North Carolina. There are a lot of those communities. And so in some ways, this book is me. And so to deny any part of my reality would be to deny myself.
The way we measure poverty in this country is not only a lie, but I can say on this show, it's a damn lie.
We got plenty more room for that.
We say we use official poverty measure says that poverty, if you make above $13,000 a year, you're not poor.
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Rev. Dr. Barber II explained that the official poverty measure in America is a lie, and the book 'White Poverty' argues that we need to face all of our poor and recognize that the kind of poverty in America is unnecessary and abolishable.
The way we measure poverty in this country is not only a lie, but I can say on this show, it's a damn lie.
This book says we need to face all of our poor and recognize that we have something, what Desmond, there's a author out of Princeton called poverty by America, not the poverty in America, but the particular kind of poverty by America that's unnecessary and abolishable because it makes no sense in the richest nation in the world.
And let's not look at this through the prism of race. Let's look at it through class.
We have to face this. We have to look at it.
White poverty available now.
