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In reply to the discussion: It is going to be a FUCKING REVOLUTION! [View all]Cleita
(75,480 posts)In the case of this country it was pitting poor white sharecroppers against poor black former slaves. That's where it started and I am oversimplifying but I think I got the basic cause here. But it's as old as Julius Caesar in Gaul getting one tribe of Gauls to fight another, while he sat back and then went in and conquered both when they were sufficiently beaten down by their own. He said, "Divide and conquer." I don't know if he actually said it. Maybe it was something handed down to him but he wrote it down and got the credit. It worked too.
Now I do agree with you that white people in North America are stubbornly deaf to the problems black people have just trying to survive. But I also believe that the constant racist dog whistles being fed to the white majority by the corrupted media and in how this country is governed and managed is coming from the 1%. I don't know how we end it but I do know what is happening.