Racism And War In America And Beyond | Ramzy Baroud
"I Cant Breath"
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust
Dec. 10, 2014
Americas ruling elites are blatant in their intentions of maintaining white privilege at home and economic dominance by military means abroad.
Their democracy in both of these regions is a ruse, and it is yet to deliver any degree of social justice and equality to the millions of disadvantaged Americans who are comprised mostly of black and Latino communities. The unequal distribution of wealth in the United States is simply staggering. In fact, 75.4 percent of all wealth in the United States is owned by the richest 10 percent, according to the authoritative Credit Suisse Global Wealth Databook (2013).
This influx of wealth comes at the heels of a major economic recession, of which rich bankers were mostly to blame, but were never held accountable. Instead, millions of lower-middle class and poor Americans became even poorer. And since Americas political and economic classes largely overlap and feed upon the privileges of one another, millions of American lost their homes and savings, while the rich got richer.
Good branding aside, the land of opportunity has always been overrated, as has American democracy, which has been rigged for generations to produce more or less similar results. The media -- with overt and covert racial supremacy displayed by the likes of Fox News -- is there to ensure that consent is manufactured in such a clever way, so that ordinary Americans constantly feel trapped between a ruling class of two strands, Republicans and Democrats, all vying for votes with the ultimate goal of maintaining their privilege.
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