Racism is a rich man's construct. If the have-nots ever got together, then they'd be a threat to that small percentage of have-everythings... so, you have rich people (like Rupert Murdoch with his "news" network) doing everything they can to keep racism alive and keep people fearful and suspicious of each other... even though they're actually in the same circumstances and the only real difference between them is melanin.
Train people to believe they're under attack by some "other" and they'll do whatever you tell them, out of fear and jealousy. And that jealousy is a very odd thing... I live in Mississippi and I know a lot of poor white people who hate blacks because they think that they're "given" everything... when the blacks have less than they do, and, in many cases, work a lot harder for it. It's bullsh***, tut people in the South have been trained to take everything on "faith"... and they put their trust in the wrong people and keep working against their own interests, all because of lies they want to believe. Southerners get really mad when the rest of the country thinks we're stupid, but, honestly, a lot of my neighbors don't give anybody much other choice. I've never seen people so eager to undermine themselves and make the same mistakes over and over and over again.
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sonofbeach-sheet
9 years ago
The judge during the court hearings: "These outside influences are of low morality. They are unhygienic."
--I found that funny because you have all these nasty, sweaty, rotten-toothed hicks living in the community and the FBI agents are all well-groomed and dressed in nice suits
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