you see I wouldn't have known you were talking about 'American whiteness' because you never said.

what you said was, "The idea of "whiteness" was invented by rich white people to make poor share croppers feel like they had something in common with each other, and to make the share croppers feel like they were better than black slaves."

no mention of America in here so how am I supposed to know what you actually meant to write was "The AMERICAN idea of "whiteness" was invented by rich white people to make poor share croppers feel like they had something in common with each other, and to make the share croppers feel like they were better than black slaves."

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