Civil War 2.0 (along with Cold War 2).
Racial politics in the United States, both before and after the end of slavery, has blocked the emergence of a class politics that would unite poor whites and poor blacks in a demand for more public services. So what will happen when, by around 2045, non-Hispanic whites become a minority of the total population?….It's the demographics.
Project Syndicate
America’s Ongoing Civil War
Jeffrey D. Sachs | Professor of Sustainable Development and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University, Director of Columbia’s Center for Sustainable Development and of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network
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Divide and conquer. If not by color by economic class, religion, politic, age, sex, etc.
When I watch what is going on in TV and movies today where the shows are being loaded down with different races I only hope that it all works against the intention of the media owners and instead of separating us that we all unite and work together to defeat the ones trying to keep us separated. I will always remember what Jon Stewart told Kevin Hart, "We need to work together to get whitie."
This terrified the oligarchs so badly that they set about training poor whites to think of themselves as “superior” to poor blacks. The oligarchs granted special concession to poor whites, and treated them like “trustees” in a prison for all poor people.
From this arose the enslavement of blacks. And the rest, as they say, is history. Konrad
The same flattery works across racial lines (that is, post "redlining") with the concept of so-called "creditworthiness."
But how can one be worthy of what is, in essence due to government privileges for the banks, the public's, including the poor's, credit but for private gain?
Because one creates jobs for the poor? And how does that work out when unethically financed automation turns out to be a net job destroyer?
@ Andrew Anderson:
In a sane society there would be no such thing as private for-profit banks or financiers.
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