A coal miner’s daughter tells the story of a hard hit people
“There’s a big misconception that poor white people are Trump’s base.” That’s a quote from the new book by Beth Howard, “Song For a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity From a Coal Miner's Daughter.” She says of the book: “In the midst of divisive rhetoric, violent repression, and grifters writing elegies, may this story be a song.” The book busts stereotypes as it tells the story of “what we all have to gain when white people join in solidarity with Black and Brown people to win a world where we all have what we need: nourishing food on the table, a roof over everyone’s heads…
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