> or that the only division that makes implementing policies harder is the one of race, or that race must be a dividing block, is just a racist way of thinking.

> or that the only division that makes implementing policies harder is the one of race, or that race must be a dividing block, is just a racist way of thinking. But politicians do often try to engineer these splits down racial lines, so it often ends up that way in practice. For example, racial minorities being scapegoated for inequalities in society, to try to capture the votes of the racial majority. Dividing people who would otherwise have shared class interests, on issues of race and similar, is a political strategy with a long and sordid history, sadly.