I couldn't decide where to post this so I decided here.

[mmonk]

Yes, Racism is rooted in Economic Inequality

Here’s my question to the angry commenters: if racial inequality isn’t merely a symptom of economic inequality, what is it a symptom of?

I already feel like I can hear the answer: it’s a symptom of hundreds of years of slavery, colonialism, Jim Crow, and urban apartheid.

Yes. But what were slavery, colonialism, Jim Crow, and urban apartheid if not extreme forms of economic inequality?

What was the point of England’s colonization of Ireland if not to impose a lucrative “economic inequality” on its victims? Was the urban apartheid of Haussmann’s Paris not the “symptom” of nineteenth-century economic inequality?

And what exactly do you think all those African slaves were doing in the American South?

The connections between economic stratification and ascriptive hierarchy, between social structure and subjective affect — these issues are not new and, believe it or not, they weren’t even born in the antebellum American South.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/07/hillary-clinton-democatic-primary-sanders-netroots/
Have a nice evening.

[SonderWoman]

1. Economic inequality existed, and still does, among all racial demographics.

Racism is rooted in the aristocracy.

[tk2kewl]

2. well worth the read...

thanks for the OP