oldfart
Older than dirt
Actually I agree with Dawes. Rich, powerful white men started racism. They needed something to help other whites rationalize slavery, then later to keep the poor white trash distracted and to use as leverage to get them to work for pennies. Then even later begin to use it to increase the police presence in all communities that were not white. If these people were powerless and stupid racism wouldnt exist. Do you pay attention to what trailer trash think?More likely the stupid and powerless.sorry but racism was started by the rich and powerfulThere was no such thing as racism until white people came up with it. Doesnt matter what ingrained instincts motivated it. Everyone has the instinct to prefer their own kind. Its a learned concept to say this human is not my kind because of skin color. Put it like this...How racist would people be if aliens were wiping us out?Racism or bigotry is related with xenophobia, I'd say it's a result of xenophobia.Apathy, xenophobia, and bigotry isn't racism.
Apathy - every racist is apathetic because of someone of other race died, it's normal for racist
Actually rich and powerful folks really don't need racism. They've already got the money and power.
Racism is a social construct invented for purposes of social control. Racists themselves are often one of the groups that social control is designed for. Racism is the lever that causes white Southerners to consistently vote in political programs that are to their detriment. Some of the affluent whites believe the claptrap they parrot, and others know that it is only a system of manipulation. In the old days of the Klan, the deputy sheriffs led the night riders while the judges and sheriffs called the shots. A few blacks found ways to profit from racism and joined in the manipulation.
Racism is a negative sum game. Most people are worse off because of it, black or white or yellow. A few find that it is a useful way to gain and maintain economic, political, and social power, and an exception to the general principal of civilization that the state has a monopoly on the "legitimate" use of physical and lethal force. The game will continue until the victims realize that in the words of the computer in "War Games", "A very curious game. The only way to win is to not play."