TOW #14

The author of this article eloquently uses personal anecdotes when speaking of the White Resentment on the Night Shift at Walmart. Author Tracie McMillan shares with her audience how rapidly the world is changing. She shares that in 2008, her small county in Michigan was all for Barack Obama being the next President of the United States. She mentioned that the whole state of Michigan was in fact a democratic state. Later in the next election, she told the audience that her incredibly small county in northern Michigan was still democratic but only by a small margin.

McMillan then mentions that in the most recent election, the whole state was red. Even more so, the whole county was red. That puzzled her because the people in Trump's cabinet are fighting to lower the minimum wage. She was very confused because the minimum wage was what she and all of her other co workers worked for everyday. Members of the Trump administration proclaimed that 10 dollars an hour was way to high, but Walmart workers barely make nine dollars an hour. But then, the realization hit her. Donald Trump's presidency was focused around appealing to the uneducated, poor, white man. The people who work at Walmart fit the standard because she mentioned that most of her colleagues only had high school diplomas and a few of them did not even graduate high school.

This was very eye opening to me because it made me wonder why so many people voted for Barack Obama. I mean he did have a strong base from the African American community, but why did the white people vote for him? He was not appealing to the poor man, yet he was not appealing to the rich man either. This shows that rhetoric in the way that leader's speak really can impact the way people respond; because with President Obama, he is very charismatic and warm hearted, but President Elect Trump is very blunt and sarcastic. Tracie McMillan shows the audience how the poor white men felt throughout this election.