America has a thousand ways to make Black people poor. Then it enacts "colorblind" policies to target the poor, objectively.
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Replying to @pookleblinky
Bail is not an explicitly racist institution. In its colorblind effect to hurt the poor, it "just happens" to target Black people
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Just like the poll tax wasn't explicitly racist either. It just happened to disproportionately disenfranchise poor Black people.
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America makes Black people poor, then sets policies that disproportionately hurt them, but aren't explicitly racist.
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This provides the illusion that America just hates poor people, regardless of their color.
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This illusion is a necessary foundation of white supremacy: it gets "non-racist" people to vote for racist policies.
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It gets people who'd hate to be called racist, to vote for policies that fuck over Black people. And gives them plausible deniability.
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"I only wanted to fuck over the poor. It's not my intention to fuck over Black people!"
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History has shown even the poorest cracker will vote to fuck over poor people like himself, so long as it hurts Black people more.
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@pookleblinky Hell, he'll go out and get himself horribly killed in the Civil War
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