The powers that be have trained us to make everything about race instead of about class, because if it was about class, the powers would have a harder time getting away with it.
no powers that be, here. I was thinking of a Latino woman who was arrested while in labor for a traffic violation and she was handcuffed to the hospital bed and arrested as soon as she delivered.
if she was rich that would not have happened.
if she was white that would not have happened.
poor people pay for being poor every day of their lives in dozens of ways.
minorities pay for being minorities every day of their lives in dozens of ways.
I could have separated wealth from race, yes, and I should have.
This is probably true. More specifically if the police knew she was rich.
>if she was white that would not have happened.
I dunno, I watch a lot of videos where cops behave badly, so much so I had to stop watching them because it was affecting my mood. There's plenty of white people who get treated like crap. It happens to everybody because it's not about race, it's about class. Here's a white guy getting tazed because he didn't comply fast enough. He didn't comply fast enough because he was deaf.
I'm not usually a conspiracy theorist, but I think this is a very thorough and very effective ongoing response to Occupy Wall Street. That movement has been handily forked into the completely pointless: Trump vs Mexicans, Bernie vs Billionaires, and Democrats vs Nazis
It also keeps us separated politically.