you know what's racist af? People implying that Malia got into Harvard due to her last name.

[Binkie The Clown]

44. Or because she's the daughter of the president of the U. S., and a child of the ruling class.

Those who want to prevent us from noticing that the rich get everything and the poor get nothing try to deflect the anger that should be directed at the greedy and encourage us to direct it at each other. As long as poor whites, poor blacks, and poor Latinos are all blaming each other for their problems they won't notice that it's not their fellow sufferers that are the enemy, but the rich oligarchs who are pulling the strings. The "race issue" is all of us being played for suckers so the 1% can make off with everybody's lunch money, especially those bamboozled into using the word "racist" in connection with privilege, when it's really class that determines privilege.

The oligarchs want racism. It's keeps us peons all riled up and not paying attention to "the man behind the curtain". They don't mind if we hate each other. They don't mind if we discriminate against each other. As long as we don't catch on to who's really to blame.

Today’s leading Democrats actually don’t want to reduce inequality because they believe that inequality is the normal and righteous order of things. As proof, he points to the famously impolitic Larry Summers, whose background as a former president of Harvard, former Treasury secretary and former chief economist of the World Bank embodies all that Frank abhors about modern Democrats. “One of the reasons that inequality has probably gone up in our society is that people are being treated closer to the way that they’re supposed to be treated,” Summers commented early in the Obama administration.

Quoted from a NY Times book review