By Navdeep Singh
2-16-26
The question of race is inseperable from the question of social class in the United States, since the very inception of the country. The protracted, large scale accumulation of wealth by a tiny, select few of the US population (the Plantation owners, industrialists, robber barons, oligarchs) went hand-in-hand with wholesale extermination, genocide, slavery, Jim Crow, et al.
Today, when we see talking points about migrants, especially from poor, third world countries that the US bombed and starved to oblivion, forcing millions to flee, we need to be reminded that we have reached a new Gilded Age of income inequality, wealth disparity, where the Robber Barons are now bordering on becoming trillionaires. Hence the focus on violent, extreme, open racism.
There need to be official scapegoats for massive income inequality and wealth disparity, and it’s almost always the most powerless, the most penniless, the ones most likely to be the victims of massive wealth accumulation.
Racism serves a very devious and obvious purpose-to cover up the economic plunder by the very few. This is the greater context for the massive, open resurgence of yT Supremacy.
It’s interesting to note that California ranks 49th out of 51 (just ahead of Hawaii and Washington D.C in terms of % of yT people. Places like Sacramento are even more distinctive in showing what the future US population will look like (30% yT, 28% Latino, 20% Asian, 14% Black).
Side note: I remember reading that Brazil represents the future of the US, a melting pot. According to the 2022 census, Brazil had 88,252,121 White people, 92,083,286 Mestizos, 20,656,458 Black people, 850,132 Asian people, and 1,227,640 Indigenous people.
Can you venture to guess what group of Brazilians, from those listed above, represent the faces of the ruling class?
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