>Americans will be able to understand for once that there isn't a race issue in the US, but an economical one. Incorrect: there has been an inextricable link b

>Americans will be able to understand for once that there isn't a race issue in the US, but an economical one. Incorrect: there has been an inextricable link between race and economics in America by design, virtually since its inception. From slavery to Jim Crow to stolen land to redlining to mass incarceration and so on. The economic legacy from that history doesn't just evaporate and, in any case, redlining and other systems of disenfranchisement still exist. >race divides are just distractions for the "peasantry" Somewhat correct. It is true that race has been the basis on which less-well off members of the majority population have been convinced to accept their own economic disenfrachisement in exchange for some illusory sense of superiority and modest preferential treatment. They were sold the idea that economic empowerment is not what they should desire, but separation from and dominion over those who are "inferior". So, for poor and working class members of the majority, it's a distraction. For minorities on the receiving end, it's reality.