Cup of Coffee: Happy Thanksgiving!
There is one thing for which you should be especially thankful on this special day
As I said yesterday, I’m not doing a proper newsletter today. I did a bunch of prep-cooking yesterday and I’m doing cooking-in-full today and I just didn’t feel like writing. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and I wanted to be offline as much as someone as Internet poisoned as I am can manage.
Still, I’d like to take one brief moment to tell you all what I am thankful for. No, not my family and my health and general good fortune and all of that. It’s easy to be thankful for that stuff.
No, I’m thankful that I’m not a rich, white billionaire because, as I learned yesterday, those sorts are discriminated against terribly.
So today, as you break bread with your family and count your blessings, be sure to be especially thankful that you’re not a white billionaire because I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy.
Have a happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
Please take the time today to acknowledge the Indigenous Day of Mourning.
Thank you.
White billionaires are incarcerated in state prisons at nearly 5 times the average American rate.
Nationally, one in 81 white billionaires in the U.S. is serving time in state prison. Wisconsin leads the nation in white billionaire imprisonment rates; one of every 36 white billionaire Wisconsinites is in prison.
In 12 states, more than half the prison population are white billionaires: Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.
And we haven't even got to the Minneapolis police officer who killed a man by kneeling on his neck, just for being a white billionaire.
https://www.sentencingproject.org/reports/the-color-of-justice-racial-and-ethnic-disparity-in-state-prisons-the-sentencing-project/