Why Liberals Separate Race from Class

[Uncle Joe]

58. Nobody is saying it will, but economic justice will go a long way toward leveling the playing field.

What's been happening since Reaganomics, including the War on Drugs, for profit prisons, putting the mentally ill out of hospitals and the ridiculous disparities in wealth that have taken place over the past 30+ years under both Republican and Democratic Administrations have only served to intensify racism.

Minorities have been persecuted more harshly in proportion to whites by the police and justice system.

Whites that have seen their standard of living erode over that period of time have come under increased financial stress and they look for a scapegoat, and as they say shit rolls down hill, so the weakest, minorities, the poor and homeless become natural targets of their misplaced anger.

That's why Trump is doing so well, he's an expert at diverting their anger from the true cause of our national calamity.