"While there is no medical evidence that racism is toxic to those who express it — after all, generations of wealthy slave owners survived quite nicely — the combination of downward mobility and racial resentment may be a potent invitation to the kind of despair that leads to suicide in one form or another, whether by gunshots or drugs. You can’t break a glass ceiling if you’re standing on ice."

That last sentence sounds like a threat, Mrs. Ehrenreich. The insinuation that racial resentment is “toxic” is the worst kind of insult to the most maligned ethno-social class in the US today: the working class white.

Why is it that when blacks are encouraged to nurse a sense of racial grievance and entitlement their lifespan increases, while whites who are denounced for any such sentiment die earlier? Is it because what you call “racism” is toxic? No, I don’t think so. Ethnic cohesion and group identity is obviously healthy. Deny it to people, and they become weaker and sicker.

But here you are giving people poison pills and calling it a cure. It’s time we started calling it as it is: you have blood on your hands, woman. You are a “willing executioner.” And there’s plenty more where that came from.