even working class white guys could assume horizontal mobility, right, as in my daddy worked at the plantworking at the plant, my son's going to worker at the plant or the coal mine or whatever. so if you're led to believe that you are entitled to the best of everything, that meritocracy is real for you if not for those people, and all of a sudden you find yourself in a system that seems as throw it has limits and where that entitlement is challenged, if i've had 90% of the good stuff and you tell me i'm going to have to make due with 75, equality begins to feel like oppression because what whiteness does is it sets up a mentality of expectation that people of color have never had. they've always known they're going to have to grind to get to that 7, 8, 9, or 10 on the scale. for white folks, 7 was promised, right? and even if you started at a 4, by god, if you worked hard, you'll get to the 7. i think we have to understand white folkses if we're ever going to get to that place that your question suggest that white folks know it's our problem, we've toe get to the expectancy and expectati