[:en]white working class male ‘despair’ – or concealed racism?[:]
There has been widespread coverage of a report (ref 7) that the white working class males are suffering from a ‘sea of despair’ causing a huge rise in deaths. This is inexplicably linked to a comparison with the declining rate of death of African American people. An unstated implication which many are reading is that the decline in mortality for Black people is related to the rise for white working class. This is political dynamite and is completely…