JUNE 18, 2010 1:16AM

Poor White Trash

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"What do you call the moisture between two white trash people having sex?"

"Relative Humidity."

 

Poor white trash; the great thing about making fun of them is that you can be as savagely mocking as you want because, hey, they're white, they're not part of some minority.

Unless you count people living in poverty as a minority, but that's a minor point I guess.

Poor white trash; they're ignorant, inbred, vicious, dirty and always high on speed or drunk.  This is the way they're portrayed, it's the received wisdom, so it must be true.

Except....isn't the received wisdom about other groups, blacks or Hispanics or gay people or overweight people or what have you, isn't that called prejudice? And isn't prejudice wrong? Maybe it's less wrong when it's about poor white trash, um, pardon me, I mean socio-economically disadvantaged Caucasians.

Poor white trash; they're the ones who led the charge across the frontier, right alongside the missionaries and the whiskey peddlers. Such folk didn't have anything to lose back East so were always ready to move West with Manifest Destiny, with their mongrel dogs and their towheaded brats, their ragged clothes and their rifles.  They had their uses in those days, were helpful when it came to wiping out or driving away the Native Americans, moving as they always did onto Indian land without bothering to check if it was legal to do so. Our government rarely if ever reined them in; they were America's shock troops, far more so than the 7th Cavalry.  

Of course, once the frontier was closed we had to set aside a place on the other side of the tracks where they could live without us having to look at them. Poverty isn't attractive, whatever color it comes in, so we shunted them off to the side; out of sight out of mind was the motto. Go to any blighted trailer park or urban white ghetto and you can still see them in their millions.

Poor white trash; feel free to make fun of them if you like. It's a riot, and no one gives a shit anyway.

 

 

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Anybody got any white trash jokes?
I saw BP's CEO walking down the street the other day and I kicked him in the nuts.

He's rich white trash. OK to insult him? Too many damn rules in this world!
It's not OK Harry, because wealthy white people could read this and be offended. White trash don't blog though, so what the hell, let's rip on 'em.
If I can't rag on anybody how am I supposed to blog??
Don't crack me up Harry, I'm trying to be bitter here dammit!
Don't waste energy co-opting guilt, especially when you are not a big fat cat! You have nothing. So no point in this angle.
My elegant mother says the poor should be sterilized, of course she wouldn't say this to a lesser class of people. Know what I think beautiful elegant mother, I think the rich should be sterilized. They should have started with dad and moved on to bankers.

Oh wait, that's a rich white trash joke. Sorry, I grew up with the very best people. We would never use such lowly terms for the "less fortunate." We do wish you to understand, it's not that we don't want to look at them, we don't want them to feel bad about being so inferior. It's for their own good.

Want to go to their house for dinner? They come from the best family... old blood! I promise, no duck head soup but you can hear about all the Royalty they knew. I'll have them send you a plane ticket, business class okay for you?
They have morphed into the red states, nana.

Mike Huckabee is the outstanding political example of this ethnic group. Used to kill squrels and cook em in a crock pot.

Or, per Hunter Thompson, they drifted to the west coast and became bikers.

As a descendent of this particular race, it don't bother me much.
Co-opting guilt? Is that what I'm doing Ablonde? Cool! As far as the angle, it seems like a fairly acute one to me so I'll stand by it.

Bleue, business class is fine, but they won't take cash back there any more for drinks, you've got to use plastic and I don't have any!

I used to kill squrels too Nick, but I'm afraid of bikes. They're fucking dangerous.
Seeing as how my mother reads my blog Poorsinner, I'm deleting that comment. Wow.
Stay the fuck away from my blog.
Since I was born white trash I don't think that any amount of education can change where I came from or the perspective and foundation it gave me. Money doesn't really change what kind of asshats people can be. People can be self-important, self-centered, or intentionally arrogant and stupid at the same time no matter how much money they have.

I don't know what poorsinner had to say, but I doubt his credentials for anything about poor white trash. He just ain't the right kind of arrogant.
Good advice always Julie!

Me too Susanne, I'm from a long line of hillbillies and proud of it. Every now and then though the jokes at poor whites' expense get a little old. Regarding Poorsinner, I rarely delete comments unless they're from trolls or the seriously deranged, and he's both. I don't know or care why he's fixated on me, still less what little psychodrama he wants to act out here, but it bores me and I'm not playing along.
We've discussed this before. It's an attempt to keep the 'masses' where they belong for convenience sake.

There is absolutely no excuse for poverty in this day and age, and the level of it in some sections of Western society is inexcusable. But it will stay the same until people have had enough.
**TEARS** MY ENTIRE FAMILY IS POOR WHITE TRASH!!! Except those bumblers who found a richie to marry, then they became rich assholes.

Stupid rich assholes.

I was so poor, we didn't have hand me downs, we went naked. In the winter, when it was 40 below. We'd have been happy with a trailer, we lived in a box, a shoe box.

Times were tough but mama made sure we each had a penny for our hope chest. Yeah, our hope chest was a tic-tac box, screw you!

Damn we were so poor, the government paid us, a dollar. It was the best Christmas ever.

We got married just so we'd have something to eat that wasn't dirt and sawdust. Rice. Got to love it. We didn't throw it, we ate it. Raw. We couldn't afford water. Or a pot. Or a stove. We had fire in a bucket, too bad that damn bucket was plastic.

**More tears, runs off stage**
Hey wait, I want some duck head soup!!!! MMmmmmm. Mama use to make something like it, called, well, Faux Soup Le Hydro. It was a big bowl of water.

With grass clippings in it.

Nummy.

What?

**Again wanders off stage**
**comes back on stage** nana, you and poorsinner should just throw away your facade of hatred, and run off to Paris(Texas) and get married, I could be matron of honor or something. You could wear white, I hear it's okay to wear white now even if you're a total slut!!!

I know, I know, but I've already got the church rented up and everything. Church of Satan in Paris Texas accepts food stamps!! :D
Exactly so Natalie. Poor is poor no matter the color, and poor sucks.

Tink, you can make a nice tomato soup at a diner for FREE! Just get 3 or 4 packets of ketchup and a cup of hot water (waitresses hate when you order a cup of hot water but they've got no choice), add the ketchup into the water, and grab a pack of those free crackers they have and, voila! Be sure and tip well though; what's 20% of nothing?
Tink always has that effect. When I think of him and his poor addled bride eating raw wedding rice off the floor, it's just heartrendering.
As to Rich White Trash:
"So, Diana, you were saying...you don't think the poor should be allowed in museums..."
"Well...I..."
"Excuse me. May I go to the bathroom?"
"Why, of course you may...."
sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
Michael Caine/Steve Martin, "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"
One can never go wrong with the classics!
Dear nana, I've been banned from most places that serve ketchup packets, stupid rules and regulations and restraining orders!! PFFFFT

I'm sorry, I should not tell my sad, sad tales of such things of my life, it's a sad hard life, filled with whale poop(by the way, did you know whale poop may have a link to helping fight greenhouse effect?? Awesome I know!!!) and playing with myself.

Also, trying to find out how to verify that I registered for Selective Service back when I was 18. Sheesh, 20 years later, someone with connections to my keeping my unemployment is now asking for it, and I ain't got it!! WAAAAAAA!!!!!! :(

I'm registered gosh durn it, how else did I get my federal student loans back in 1902!!???? :( :( :(
Mama always said, "Just because you are poor doesn't mean you have to be dirty."

Terrible for her that I grew up to be so fucking filthy.......
Inquistive, I shall then not tell you of the time I was arrested by the Canadians for possession of state secrets, it was how to build an atomic powered maple syrup processor, a bit of information the Russians were going to pay me top dollar($1.25 actually!!!) for it, to this day, I still can not go to Canada, unless I'm escorted by one of the band members from Abba!!!! :(
http://www.fortogden.com/foredneck.html
back with some jokes, just substitute redneck for white trash, most still work. Some of my favorites:
You might be white trash if....
You ever named a child after a dog.
You've painted a car with house paint.
Your Junior/Senior Prom had a Daycare.
The taillight covers of your car are made of red tape.
The FBI surrounded your trailer park twice so far this year.
Your wife has ever said,"Come move this transmission so I can take a bath."
The blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.
You take a load to the dump and bring back more than you took.
The people on Jerry Springer's show remind you of your neighbors.

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html
According to this in 1999 the average income of a single person was $21,587
According to the CIA (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html) it's $46,400 (bullshit)
I guess the point I'm aiming for is 21k is not enough to live well in this country, if that is the average, then the working class poor are the majority.
Humor only works when it's a joke on yourself. Making fun of other people is a way of treating the other people as inanimate objects.
Canuck, teeheehee!! I read that and thought, "You can never keep anything between anyone and Oklahoma!!! They tell EVERYONE!!" ;D
I'm offended. Thanks. I need to become enraged in the morning to jump start all the systems. Yeah. Good to go!
"Forgive the personal reminiscence. I deplore it. I’m just chiming with you.
Lesh
June 18, 2010 06:24 AM"


I don't laugh at poor white trash cuz I were one (till I worked my way up to just plain white trash).

My question is: Is it okay to laugh at really, really stupid and inane posts that contains word combinations like "smartypants in-talk"????
I don't live in a trailer park, but I have access to one. Right out the back door. And I've been here more than thirty years. And I get along fine with everybody there - except the people who collect the rent.

So, when Jesus said, "Love thy neighbor as thyself", that's only meant to apply to certain neighborhoods?

Keep on keeping it real, Nana.
Oh yeah, Inquisitive? We got Tink-detection devices all along the border and we'll bounce him right back atcha.

ALSO - Between you and I, that has become the normal usage, no matter whether subject or object. Pretty soon our ears and eyes won't even wince...

Wow, Nan, you got PS101 and Lesh, and it's only 8 in the morning...
Actually, that was a readable Lesh comment, with only a little misogyny. I'd been thinking I'd like to read some Lesh backstory, to see where he came from and how he got where he is. That was quite illuminating - but missing the pieces that reveal how he became so bitter about women. I imagine that's quite a story...and one that, surprisingly, I'm sure a lot of women could grok, given that many of us have become embittered from our experiences with men (tho we do blog about other things now&then...)
More Lesh (sorry) [ "Sympathy’s in short supply as a genuine emotion among the self-consciously progressive and humane people snappily about the Salon, who tend to hammer home their ideological convictions while leaving mere human fellow-feeling in the hallstand." Do you READ anything here? Sympathy for individual ordeals and as ideology abounds, with only the occasional blip such as the fat Scanner hoo-haw last night... Perhaps we haven't given YOU much "human fellow-feeling", but that's due to the aggressively unpleasant nature of your anti-women posts...
Why not remember that poor white is not always trash? Often rich white is trash. I have been known to use the phrase white trash but choose not to determine their financial status but observe behavior. I do not use derogatory terms to describe ethnic groups to which I do not belong. I am white, therefore, white trash seems a more acceptable term to come out of my mouth. By the way, the more common comment that I use is "they just never knew any decent people who could teach them how to behave" and that applies regardless of skin color or national origin. I also feel comfortable making a few short jokes, since I am also short.
Lesh you do your level best to identify yourself clearly as an asshat and the rest of us will simply notice and move on. Really you are so hateful and full of yourself.
Well, so much for having some sympathy with Lesh!

Girl-turds!

Must be SOME back-story...
Okay, I'll go there:
White Trash honeymoon; The morning after the wedding night, the groom announces that he doesn't want his new bride. "Why the hell not?" he was asked. "'Cause she was a virgin; hell if she ain't good enough for her own family - I don't want 'er."

R~
BTW I live in Alabama and we get "trashed" all the time; some of it justified, we often make ourselves an easy target. Nana, were you joking about the question regarding "white trash" jokes? I "got" the underlying meaning of the post, but after reading comments here...
~J~
I'm proof poor white trash do blog! So watch it you elitist, liberal scum or I'll sic my sister on ya!
Nothing wrong with being poor or white. Being trashy is the problem. A trashy person is one lacking in culture, values, ambition and/or refinement. Anyone--rich or black among others--can be trashy.
Why are poor whites automatically "trash" or are there poor whites who are not "trash?"

Obviously this is in the "eye of the beholder" -- user of the disparagement.

One side of my family came from the South, and they were quite poor: many, many people were in the generations after the civil war. The Cotton Crisis beggared a lot of families in the early 1900s.

There was a distinction between being poor and white and being "trash" ... the distinction was that the "trash" were considered thieves and drunkards and worse.

You also risked being labeled "trash" if you didn't go to church, had children out of wedlock, or were too friendly/sympathetic to black people.
What the fuck. How did this thread become a platform for diatribes about the supposed failings of women? I don't even know where to jump into this mess.
OK, first of all, Lesh; I don't know what comment or post (if any) of Susanne's you reference in your comment here. But let me ask you this; are you prepared to concede that rape does occur? I'm guessing even you would admit that it exists, and that the vast majority of rape victims are women. Or would I be wrong in thinking you concur with that premise? If you do concur, then isn't there a bare possibility that if a woman claims to have been raped, she may be speaking the truth? Why do you without fail go into these automatic, knee jerk denials of the veracity of such claims, which lead always to blanket attacks on women generally, every time the topic is mentioned? Why? And for that matter, in this case the topic was brought up by you, for no good reason I can see save as an exscuse to say foul things about Susanne and about women generally. What did it have to with anything said here by anyone? It's like there's a demented, twisted voice in your head, or a poison inside you, which, no matter what the topic at hand, takes over your ability to hold rational discourse and causes you to spit filth and venom. Women are half the human race, no worse or better than men, each gender being a reflection of the other; to view the world through a prism of such loathing for the other half of your own kind seems to me a sick and sad way to exist.
And there's this Lesh; how can you say the kinds of things you said to Myriad, one of the most reasonable, well-spoken, and lucid people I've met in OS, and expect to be taken seriously by anyone? I realize you have nothing but contempt for more or less everything and everyone here, but it puzzles me that a person of your intellect and erudition would stoop to such infantile, school yard epithets. There is something seriously wrong with you.
Now to veer dangerously away from the topic of Lesh; I thought when I posted this, and still do think, it's a good post. People aren't comfortable equating hatred of any segment of the "white" race with prejudice, but it's for that exact reason I wrote this. Blanket ridicule, across the board contempt for whole groups of people, and hate speak are pastimes of the small-minded, as is judging people based solely on the basis of "what" they are rather than "who" they are.
I was born the off-spring of white trash. Quite frankly, I'm now living in my most modest ever circumstances and don't mind it at all. I just can't quite get the "cracker humor", I far prefer to jab at the "uppity folks" on the "right side" of the tracks.
The difference between poor white trash and rich white trash is oppurtunity. I have always said that Dan Quayle would have been poor white trash except by accident of his birth. I always feel saddened that people have to make themselves feel better by scapegoating and humiliating others. I have done it myself, but I am trying to rise above it. Thanks for this great post! R
I meant opportunity! I should always read first before posting my comments! LOL!
Thanks for reading Walter, and you also Libmom. Why OS can't put an edit feature in comments has long been a subject of speculation, one which isn't likely to be answered soon. Regarding the upper classes, something which many never pause to consider is that wealth and status, and even success in a more general way, are determined to at least some extent by the luck of the draw. Many disadvantaged people of all stripes can and do succeed (as success is defined by our culture), but if you're born into poverty, whatever your ethnic background, you're more likely to remain in it your whole life than not. The underclass never goes away because it's not meant to, and is always a target for contempt from above.

And thanks to everyone who took the time to read and to comment here, including Lesh before he underwent his Jekkyl and Hyde transformation. I'm thinking about going fishing today so if I'm not here to answer comments or delete PS101's spew that's why. It's Friday dammit and it's June; if I can't fish now then when?
Short version of a comment I've been mulling for awhile now:

You're right. It's wrong.
Terse is good sometimes Owlie!
Thank you for giving me the politically correct term for the occasion of engaging the, "socio-economically disadvantaged Caucasians."

What do you call the rich ones masquerading as evolved?
Sparking! They're called the "real world experientially challenged." I know, it's a clunky moniker, but such are the depths to which PC-ness has reduced us. Or elevated us, as the case may be, depending on your take on the whole politically correct thing.
I love the double standard. Be kind and considerate to one group, but fuck the others.

Sad reality is, we all need to learn to be a bit more polite, without going so overboard with the "Double Talk" and "Newspeak" that we forget what the hell we're talking about.

The idea here is this. One we all learn to lighten up, AND be considerate at the same time, our society will have acheived some sort of enlightenment.

Until then, its gonna stay ugly.
My family tree doesn't fork.
I cringe!! With every misstep I ever made I became poor white trash to my mother..."What are you, PWT?", "Why are you wearing that, are you PWT?" ......shudder....I mean ha ha?
Damn, I'm so confused right now, wait, that's normal. lol

-R-
My house is so small, all the rats are hunchback! (is that PC?)
It's worth getting dissed by poor crazy Lesh to read such nice words from you.
Our house is so small our kids' bedroom is in the bathroom ---
Daddy can I borrow the car 2nite?

Sure darlin' but first you have to ... you know the deal.

OKDaddy....

(10 seconds later) Daddy, your thingy tastes like poop!

Oh that's right darlin', I forgot... already loaned the car to your brother for the night
I do think this is an important post. And it's one that lots of folks would never get.

About Lesh:

He is the most seriously misogynistic and hateful poster here. I understand he lives on an island out in the ocean or something, so I don't think women here have to worry about being stalked by him, but he seems to have no filter.

Nana, thanks for your words. If it was my blog I would have yanked his comment all together for its venomous intent, but we all have our own choices to make and values and the lack of them to expose, and he certainly is showing his in every word.

Can you imagine asking someone who admits to being raped to prove it on a blog? He is so stuck in the sewer that is his hate-filled consciousness, he cannot even begin to imagine how inappropriate such a request actually is. To think I would revisit that terrible nightmare to satisfy someone who doesn't for a moment care in any way for those of whom he would make such a demand is unthinkable. Why in the world would anyone owe him proof of anything. What is his standing to make such a hateful claim on anyone's time or life. The truth of my childhood is locked away in closed court files, and they close those files for good reason.
I am pretty sure we were considered poor white trash as kids. I think I even remembering beind called that a few times.
Maybe that's why I only tell red neck jokes :)
Working class? Geez, these days most people would wish they were working class. That would mean they had jobs ..
Some of my best friends are poor white trash.
Where'd I read this ?
'scuse me if it was here - my memory's shot.

She knocks on the door & asks if there's any work.
He says, Well, you could paint the porch. I'll give you $50.
Paint's in the garage.

Couple hours later she knocks on the door ...

... you've heard it before, I can tell.
I'll go read the comments. Noticed lesh is there. Sounds like fun.
Sorry, that wasn't fun at all.

Lesh lives outside a village in Malaysia.
The saddest part here, was to learn that he once taught in a boy's school in England.

None of it's ok.
Lesh ... may have issues. My brother has gone fishing, and I haven't even read beyond the first few words of L's comments. I did however read Jeff's responses. Hat's off for dissecting the bastard with intellect and reason, as if that matters to Lesh.
You knocked off my next comment : prob ?
O yes, lesh, it's safe to say your experiment in communication failed.
You are an unalloyed creep.
Look to shit-posts like thoth's, if you want readership here.
why do people from arkansas do it doggy style?

So they can both watch NASCAR...!

Ha, relative humidity.........funny shit man .........

Signed, fellow white trash.....
I do get tired of stereotypes of poor whites, though I have occasionally sunken to the level of a white trash joke.
Well-said, Nan!
Damn it, I think we've waited long enough for the answer to the question in all of our minds!!!

DID YOU CATCH ANY FISH??????

Also, if you did,

ARE YOU GOING TO SHARE THEM WITH THE BESTEST CAT IN ALL OF OPENLAND, AFTER SID AND MARY BUT BEFORE RASCAL, CAUSE WELL, HE HASN'T POSTED IN LIKE A YEAR AND SO BY THE DEFAULT, TINK WINS!!!!?????

Hello?

Damn cold sausage and warm beer again, I guess!!

**wanders off to Grandma Gretel's house**
... so she knocks on the door. He comes out.
She says it's all done. He gives her the 50.

She says thanks, & " By the way, it's not a Porsche, it's a Lexus. "
I got plenty of white trash jokes, but they are easily applied to all races of trash that are universal and available in California.

Lesh, for example, is mentally ill WT who may even take a bath now and again and who may have a job. He showed up at your back door to beg for a cup of attention! See?

As for deleting, don't let the hard heads manipulate you into doing everything their way. Some of them even want the spam to stay. Thank God that they don't rule here.
On the contrary "Cucumber", Xenon is as bright as they come. If your metric for measuring people's intellect is the extent to which they agree with Lesh, you're a bit of a ninny yourself. Please take your own advice and shut the fuck up unless you have something of interest to say.

Z, congratulations, your comment warranted a riposte from someone's sock puppet. I wonder who it could be?

Kim, thanks for the punchline, it was worth the wait. I think. And yes, the experiment in communication seems to have been a wash.

Tink, it grieves me to say I have no fish for you:( I wound up going to a Kaw Indian dance exhibition instead of to the lake; I'll be posting about it soon I hope. With pitchers!

Delia, Blind Dog, thanks for reading. I've told a few of those jokes myself, operating under the premise that I'm making fun of myself in the process so it's OK. To be honest, I'm not sure how valid that premise is; it reminds me of the character on Seinfeld who converted to Judaism so he could tell Jewish jokes with impunity. Oy!

Lesh, you claim to not be motivated by misogyny. I could go on at length here but I'll just reference your use of the witticism "girl-turd" and the things you said to Susanne and leave it at that. You're of course free to believe whatever you like, as others are free to interpret your posts and commentary as seems best to them, but it's worth considering the possibility that if nearly everyone you encounter sees hatred of and contempt for women in your words that the problem may lie with you rather than with the numerous insightful and intelligent people who are less than impressed by your assertions. You're a smart person, but there are plenty of other smart people around; the fact that they'd disagree with you doesn't make them less so, sorry but it just doesn't.
Damn, missed another rollicking thread. That may not have been a bad thing. Is Cucumber Lesh's sock puppet? I've been away too much. This place gets out of hand.

Xenonlit is about the smartest person in the world. I have no white trash jokes, but trig's made me gag. My only question is, will the white trash let me join their (hopefully, motorcycle) club? Most country clubs have to let me in now, but I hate golf. I hate the rich, not the poor, though if I ever win the lottery, that might change.
Trig's humor can have that effect. And you're of course welcome to join the poor white's club Sirenita, even if you won the lottery you'd be accepted (as long as you don't insist we start using finger bowls and bidets).
Sirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrenita!!!!!
I couldn't have said it better myself. Well I could have actually, but you know what I mean.
You're a part of the OS bubble Inquisitive. I hope you feel properly ashamed.
*When feminists broke the compact between the sexes in 1968 or so*

?????

I just can't. I'm going to behave.

But I will say that some of us might want to look a little farther back in history (ok, maybe a lot further back in history) before we start speaking of pacts within the parameters of human being. The *evidence* of who broke first lies there.

Not that this has a thing to do with Nana's post subject :D.

I actually like Jeff Foxworthy most of the time ;).

And while my momma's people came from the right side of the tracks my poppa's side came straight out of the hills. As many have said it's not the people, it's attitude - and fear, and greed and need.

In short it's just human (if not particularly humane).

Sorry I missed the party Nana (or maybe not ;).

Rated for counting on always up in the air here at Nana's.
Uh...well, I did read you post.
If one of by closest and oldest friends is PWT, can I be an honorary one?Her Dad has hated me for years. I love that he hates me. He hates anything darker than he is or with more money than he has. He now hates his own grandchildren. They are half mexican, and their mother, my friend, now has money to wipe her ass with...and she is still the same girl, just different clothing and a huge house and several businesses. We are all human, flawed, and capable of greatness or atrocities. She is honarary "black folk" and I am honarary PWT. Bougie Snob types make my prostate hurt. : )
Good post. Rated. I also think the Capitalist Establishment, in order to co-opt global, cosmpolitan connections and hierarchical networks, has to "apologize" in some way for the excesses of past white colonial, imperialist excess.

They do this by blaming all the past attrocities and genocides and racism on poor whites. This way, wealthy and middle class Arabs, Chinese, Hispanics and Blacks will not be suspicious of rich white folks and their corporations when they come to town to hire them and exploit the natural resources and humanity of the area.

Its a clever strategy, actually. For the first time in history, we see poor, powerless white people as resposible for things they never, really had the power to accomplish. Wierdly, we see rich white folks wearing Benneton shirts and dockers as liberal, compassionate saviors, even though they are just a friendly version of the old Imperial Powers.