The Pernicious Truth About Middle-Class Values

I think the single most arguably, the single most pernicious message in American life is this idea that for one of their term middle-class values, bourgeois values, traditional idea, however you want to phrase it, is a white thing. The Protestant work ethic, frankly the Jewish work ethic of work hard, be honest dealings, meet expectations, all these kinds of things. If you do those things, if you've got that software in your system, it's not a guarantee you'll be rich, but it's damn close to a guarantee that you won't be poor and you'll have a good life. And we're living at a time where people who react the way that you