"And of course they are not powerless"

There was an item last night on PBS Newshour on how in the U.S. the death rate for white middle-aged males (40 - 55) with high school or less education has climbed since 2001. Some of it was suicide, some alcohol or drug-related. 

And the implication was that a lot of these people had been working in such areas as manufacturing (male-dominated) which of course has taken quite a bit of a tail-spin recent years. And you don't have to think too hard to imagine some of these people ending up on opiods when they suffer a work-place injury (thanks to clever marketing by drug companies who claimed these drugs weren't additive).

What is really annoying about your column is that you lump everyone into "the white people's group" as if every "white person" is exactly the same. 

Think about it.