Tim Wise Speaks the Truth on White Privilege

At some level, again, working class white people being harmed by white privilege.  Relatively, being advantaged, right?  Being given a leg up, being given a membership to the club, but in absolute terms, being kept economically subordinated by the very thing that gave them a sense of superiority.  How's that for irony?

Then, in the present era, this hasn't stopped, this is not ancient history.  Now, we have people running around insisting that we should close the border with Mexico because if we don't the wages of working class people will continue to fall.  The implication being that the only reason workers are paid like crap in this country, is because the border is open. 

But if you believe that, you would actually have to believe, that if that border were closed, that all these owners of capital and industry would just say, "Oh well you figured us out.  Here it's a raise."

Do we really believe that the only thing keeping bosses from paying people more is the presence of low-wage medium semi-skilled labor from South of this artificial border?  Is that really what we believe?  We know that if that border is closed, it isn't going to be closed to capital.  It isn't going to closed to goods.  If you have a border that can be crossed by capital looking for the highest return on investment, or goods looking for the highest price, but labor is chained to it's country of origin, how is that going to work to the benefit of working people?  By definition it doesn't.  By definition it immiserates the working class.  Divide and conquer.

Tim Wise - Youtube (emphasis mine)

In order to be successful the pro-migrant movement has to move the debate from questions of nationality to questions of global inequity. It has to move the debate from questions of legality to questions of justice. Migrants are first shackled to the arbitrary piece of land that they are born onto and then chained to the forces that compel them to leave. We need to remove those shackles and chains. Citizen Orange works for migrant emancipation.