Racism keeps our schools segregated, and our children suffering from lack of adequate funding for education. It keeps workers divided, unable to fight the bosses attacks on wages and benefits. Racism does not benefit any working class and poor community like the one in Grays Ferry. Both Black and white people in Grays Ferry suffer from poor housing conditions, chronic unemployment, heavy school-dropout rates, overcrowding and poverty. At the same time that politicians have waged a frontal assault on social programs from welfare to school funding, they have also campaigned against affirmative action and the rights of women and immigrants.
Racism only benefits the capitalist.
It has served to help the bosses grow wealthier at everyone else s expense, to the point that today, the gap between rich and poor in the U.S. is the highest of any industrialized country. As the stock market soars, we are experiencing the simultaneous elimination of the safety net that kept millions of families away from starvation and homelessness in times of hardship. The corporations use their wealth to buy off politicians, both democrats and republicans, to do their bidding. Over the past 25 years, politicians acting on behalf of corporate interests, have effected the transfer of massive amounts of government funds from social programs to private hands of bankers and owners of the military-industrial complex. They have used racism as a weapon to keep us divided and unable to fight back to stop these attacks.