The Racial Divide

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

I don't know. It's a good question: how broad and sweeping the gulf? So long as we have drastic differences in such measures as income and incarceration rates, I suppose the chasm would have to remain fairly wide, even if you do have a more racially diverse mix at the top of the social order.

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[hardblue.livejournal.com]

I think such biases would be harder to overcome if we find that there is more segregation, as opposed to this in-school kind of situation presented in the video, even if it is a class-based segregation. Money and class is key to how we move in society, and if there is this class divide, then it just makes it easier for a racial mistrust to fester. A society of middle-class whites and underclass non-whites helps to make the chasm real, I think.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I don't always understand the relationship between class and race, but I do know its a real thing.

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

I don't think you can understand race without class.

Every war is a class war.