Racism

Unlike, race hatred, and individual racists, racism is a coordinated, embedded system of laws and
customs designed to maim and even cripple the strivings of a specific race or group of races.
Sometimes institutions are so cloaked in the garments of exclusion, the language of exclusion has
no descriptively identifiable racial words or phrases used in statements preventing members of a group from achieving stated goals. So, sometimes, people find it more useful to fail to state goals.
America has gotten a leg up on providing itself with a great deal of racism. Kidnapping and enslaving
easily identifiable people gives a country plenty of leverage of those people.
Offering lots of work for very little pay to groups who are not legally even present in a country- well,
again, employer country has plenty of leverage over those worker groups.
Then rather than have to offer a fair day's pay for a day's work, eventually, just convince 99% of all
in your country to work for no increases in pay for decades, while the richest in business and government reap gargantuan income increases each and every year.
A permanently undervalued, underdeveloped, poorly compensated work force group can keep a
country thriving in some quarters, aye? This works especially well when workers, in the main, are
undereducated, but a big chunk of them believe themselves to be well-read, articulate, critically
thinking and accurate quantifiers.
In the African-American community, people often help each other stay under the radar of mainstream
society, for example. Oprah Winfrey initially learned her craft from her boss at a black radio station.
She didn't graduate from college.
Dr. Dre wasn't attempting to be class valedictorian. He perfected the craft his community appreciated.
But today, this community gets brain-washed and practically tortured daily about the lack of skill(s) in their children.
Barak Obama wasn't looking for a green-eyed blond once he knew he wanted to work in the black
community after law school/
African Americans have to hone the skills they love most in one another. Enough of the rest of America comes along eventually.
I know a friend whose boyfriend was hired by a dealership to bring in Spanish speaking customers.
Whenever a Latino person bought a car, the dealership paid my friend's boyfriend a few dollars, usually less than two hundred, a few days after a sale.
Sometimes her boyfriend had no way home, and no groceries, waiting for some pay. He was over
forty, and spoke only broken English.
When WWI broke out, I guess black soldiers were enlisted last, or late.
But direct descendants of those vets were due funds from the Laverne Noyes scholarship at the
University of Michigan. So I got my granddad's papers together from my mom. I sent in copies to the
U for my daughter.
Several days later I got a 'not qualified' letter saying the Noyes scholarship was only for the descendants of people who entered and served before a date printed in the letter.
I asked my mother what in the world that meant.
She told me the date was the one after which black soldiers came into service.
A coordinated, embedded system of laws and customs designed to maim and even cripple the strivings of a specific race or group of races....
See what I mean?