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In reply to the discussion: Elephant in Living Room: White Supremacists w/ Badges & Guns murdering black men [View all]whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)median of about $11,000. White wealth median of about $141,000.
Money buys civil rights in America. If you beat up a white person for resisting arrest after being pulled over for a non-broken tail light, there is a good chance the white person has the means to fight back in court.
Someone who has no money has no legal defense available except the minimum default available.
Making things worse, the arrest record keeps black families in poverty for generations since they are automatically excluded from the workforce.
So, I believe it is rich versus poor. Wealth = power = civil rights. We are farming the poor like livestock to pay for the rich.
As an example, the rich will always be able to afford an abortion. They'll buy bottled water. They'll breath the filtered air from their mansion, to their limo, to their private jet, to a vacation home in Europe with clean mountain air. And they can afford to buy their way out of their responsibility for the declining state of our nation.
We admire this as the American dream and believe the same opportunity exists equally for all. Therefore, if you are poor, you must be evil and unworthy of American civil protections.
Like it or not, this is a meme promoted 24/7 by our media monopoly and the non-stop brainwashing that the rich are pure and non-rich impure has turned even the Democratic Party to direct object hostility to those without means, wealth and power.
That's what is so horrible about Clinton as a candidate. She's a product of entitlement and wealth and represents the mindset at the root of our disparity and injustice.
People admire her ability to gain wealth even as the policies she defends and promotes continue to stack up families in poverty.
btw - to be sure, I don't dispute there is organized racism in police depts. I also believe it is organized in the military and DoD including NSA, CIA, etc.
However, it is the deliberate political goal of BOTH parties to promote the interests of the wealthy over the interests of the non-wealthy and this fact of deliberate negligence has allowed racism, like a disease, to spread.