Racism has nothing to do with hate.

It is an “ISM”. It’s just like any other religious or political system readily available:

• Judaism…
• Buddhism…
• Capitalism…
• Communism…
• Fascism…
• Classism…

An “ISM” is simply a system of rules, laws, and standards of social, personal, and political conduct. Conformance to these rules ensured society was harmonious with “how things were” in all aspects of life.

A member of an “ISM” is referred to as an “IST”:

• Capitalist…
• Buddhist..
• Fascist…

An “IST” may not hold to all of the tenants of the “ISM”. He may not behave exactly like others in his social circles, but as a member of the “ISM”, he partakes in the more palatable traditions of the “ISM”.

Classism, a belief in a hierarchy of importance and deference, is bestowed upon one based solely on his noble station. This station is originally granted by a king and is inherited by posterity.

18th and 19th century Classism was neither about wealth nor about moral excellence. It was only about station. A wealthy peasant was never considered an equal to a dirt poor count. A godly commoner was never respected or trusted above a treacherous lord.

In Classism, a commoner could never be more than a laborer, a shop owner, a soldier or a servant.

In Classism, only birth or royal favor mattered. In Classism, only members of the “ruling class” benefited from the system.

Classism is a functioning system that naturally formed around this dynamic between nobles and commoners, and, after a length of time, the malice that built the system faded, leaving an unstably peaceful co-existence of inequality.

Classism is the progenitor of Racism, because in Classism, no one is of lower breeding and station than those born to present or former slaves.

From 1865 to now, America’s class based society has widened it’s tent to include poor whites into the opportunity pool. Having shunned the monarchy, America devised it’s own prerequisite for entrance into its society: All anyone already in the tent had to do was become wealthy, but those in the tent still maintained an ever evolving sack of tricks designed to keep blacks, and “others” on the outside.

Redlining, loan denial or loans at unfairly higher, interest rates, voter suppression and aggressive policing has impeded black progress in this country, and, after 155 years, the hatred seemed to have faded into an unstably peaceful co-existence of in-equality amid indifference and oblivion…

UNTIL… the quietly kept truth of what “aggressive policing” actually meant started getting filmed.