An article from the Intercept, confirming what many already knew...

[JCanete]

12. Racism is still not a root in and of itself. It's not something we are born with. Why people are

less humanizing of others is complicated, but it would be I think, incorrect to say that a lot of that wasn't directly related to misconceptions about how "those people" are affecting the security and safety of "good" people. It has a lot to do with fear on all kinds of levels, and economic insecurity feeds that impulse. They are afraid of losing, and they are led to believe(and are quite ready to believe) that the people taking from them and er...ruining America...are the least advantaged and most vulnerable...not the bastards in charge.

So I don't see how this undermines the argument that we could have reached these people on economics, in-fact the article sites the nonsense that people believe about people of color that suggests otherwise. If we'd been able to short-circuit that programming with something that gave them immediate and easily graspable hope for their own well-being, that very well might have trumped their worst instincts, which they most certainly fall back on when they are experiencing high levels of stress.

We cannot tackle class without tackling racism. That is absolutely true. We cannot tackle racism without tackling issues of class either.