Reply #32: Indeed. Those who still think is just about race, still keep on missing the point....

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... it has always been about class. Period.

Race is a nice element of the divide and conquer approach which allows the top 5% to control the other 95%.

Because the day the poor white people realize they have more in common with the poor black people, than they do with the rich white people... the day every racial group realizes they have more commonalities across social groups than they do across racial and cultural groups.... when that day comes, the gig for the top 5% is up.

So yes, there has always been racism, but that it has always been institutionalized because it is an awesome approach to keep people divide too busy bickering against each other... when they should be bickering at the people at the top. A similar argument can be made about nationalities, cultures, and religion. All silly abstract notions, that have a single purpose: create artificial divides.

They way I see it, it is not an either or proposition. But racism is a tool in order to perpetuate the ultimate goal: maintain a very unfair and very pyramidal social structure.