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AverageJoe90

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6. That was perhaps the best line of the whole article, and it was a good one overall.
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 07:24 PM
Sep 2014

This is what certain folks on our side don't seem to get: Racism doesn't just hurt People of Color, nor does it "benefit" white people as a whole(and neither has ever been true, at any point in this nation's history), it hurts everyone, in some way, somehow.

Whether it be structural or intrapersonal, racism has(like other bigotries, and even prejudice in general!), more than anything else, been used a method of social control, and to divide and conquer. There are many examples of this throughout this nation's history. Perhaps the most notorious of them all was Jim Crow, and how it reigned free over the South for almost three quarters of a century. While a few (white) elites were living high off the hog, many of the rest(white or otherwise!) lived in terrible poverty and squalor; there never was much of a middle class, not until the Fifties anyhow, outside of a select few areas. And much of that was indeed due, in no small part to that particular brand of racism; it's not something we hear about in school much, but it's very true.



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