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Race is Just the Symptom; Class is the Disease
How Billionaires Use Racism to Get Richer While Keeping Others Down
America’s caste system isn’t as defined as India’s, but it exists. Our system is based on money and class. The color line still exists; it’s the mechanism to separate the lower and even middle classes to ensure they don’t unite against the rich people pulling the strings.
Look at the three branches of Government: the Executive, Judicial, and Congressional. In theory, anyone can grow up to be President, but they’d better get rich before entering the ring. When America was founded, who could vote was, most choosing only to allow white, land-owning males to vote. New Jersey would enable free Black men who owned land and paid taxes to vote, but how many people was that?
Before America gained its independence and status as a nation, enslavement was the method by which cheap labor allowed the colonies to compete economically, but it wasn’t always that way. The original source of cheap labor was indentured servants, immigrants who agreed to serve to pay for their transport to America. A typical contract was for seven years, after which, in theory, they were free and often got some land to give them a start. Most of the initial Black workers in what would become America were indentured…
