Zeus Molecules
illegal immigrants are stealing our air
It remains to be seen what the solution will be here. Many people have always advocated for a health based approach with clinics and rehab programs and such to fight drug epidemics in poor and black communities. And that has happened in many places especially on a city/state level. Of course we just voted in idiots so I doubt this will be there solution even with it being in white communities.
Also, you make a ridiculous assumption that this is a result of failed "white privilege" and that people should get with the times and stop following tradition. The implication being that people are depressed about giving "power" to minorities I guess? Isn't it more likely that white working class (and all working class) means a whole lot more of a depressing life than it used to? People used to make a living wage in the working class. Now it means poverty, for everyone. Our wages are becoming more imbalanced by the year. People in the lower class are stressed, poor, depressed and have worse jobs than ever. Maybe it's less about race and more that there lives are just shit now too.
My argument about white privilege is based mostly on the studies that have come out recently that shows people (both domestically and abroad in Europe) are voting for populist candidates mostly based on racial identity politics. It's a part of their identity that arguably they are letting control their decision making process more than anything else.
In a lot of ways if it was just an economic issue this would be a lot easier to address.... however it just not. The housing market crash may have been the last stone..... but even then how much monetary value is a house on the outskirts of a small town. Especially since houses aren't liquid assets unless they had mortgages, and etc to live off it.
The income issue has been a very slow creep by decades. I mean right now a lot more rural white people are on Welfare than minorities combined. However, because the issue is framed within racial terms those same white people vote against a program that should be a foundation program to try and help get them out of poverty. Hell the ACA is in the middle of being revoked as much due to it being branded Obamacare as anything else.
Minorities in Power is just another form of cognitive dissonance that those same poor rural whites are dealing with. It's not the root cause of their issues (bad political leadership is...... but that is another debate). However, yes they need to stop letting traditional norms get in the way of making ends meet. Coal Mining being championed as some noble career choice "cause that is all they know" is completely hogwash because they can and should learn to do something more viable. The idea that taxing business is bad because they are job creators doesn't make sense since that tax money should be spread amongst the worker to help them become job creators themselves. And those same business are proceeding to automate as much as they can to improve their bottom line. The Protestant work ethic makes a whole lot less sense if the minimum wage and overtime laws on the books for your state severely limit the amount you can earn. All of these things are cognitive dissonance issues that people vote against their own interest in because traditionally they vote for one set of policies because they have been indoctrinated into believing one party has their benefits in mind and the other party helps all those "other" people.