Poor Whites more likely to be racists.

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5. A couple of things

It might seem that poor white person are more likely to be racist, but that could be a function of who you're more likely to encounter during the course of a day. There's certainly no shortage of prejudice among the monied classes, and between the mass of poor white people and the handful of wealthy banksters, who's more likely to have a wide influence on our society?

Which leads me to my second point, and that is that poor white people are told - early and often - that all their problems are traceable to the presence of other people at their economic level competing with them for jobs, schools, housing, and the other amenities of society. In reality, shortages of commodities are contrived by those same people to set the lower economic classes against one another. Why does our society spend so much money ($2 billion a day) on "national security" defined almost exclusively in terms of expensive weapons systems of dubious reliability? Why doesn't "national security" translate into better-funded schools, jobs at decent wages, a healthy citizenry free from the specter of economic ruin? We have plenty of wealth in this country, but for some reason, our society has decided that that wealth needs to be concentrated into and controlled by a comparatively small group of people. That didn't happen by accident. It doesn't have to be that way. I don't know if I can change that in the time I have left, but I've decided I got nothing better to do.