Thread: things like this are keeping racism alive.

Italians, too, were heavily discriminated against in the U.S. about a hundred years ago. The difference is not so much that there is no obvious immediate visible tipoff as to genetic makeup or group affiliation with Italians and Irish, but that they integrated with our society before the politics of group-ism became the norm.

So long as group-ism and coalition-ism remain the powerful political and marketing tools they truly are, racism based on visual cues will not go away. There is too much power and money behind making certain that the divides remain in place.

People like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton wouldn't have a job if racism against people of African heritage were to go away. That's why they both work so hard to keep us divided. People like them get wealthy by promoting and leveraging racism.

Group politics has become one of the greatest driving forces behind justifying collectivist politics in the US and the world. Group politics is nothing more than institutionalized and formally endorsed (and REWARDED) prejudice and racism.