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"The basis of the racial caste system was literally to make white people (men) feel better about getting nothing."
With respect, it seems to me that an important, unacknowledged factor here is the American prison industrial complex, or carceral system, so brilliantly evoked by Angela Davis throughout her academic/political career. Her analysis places POC at the very bottom of the bottom and demonstrates how--in the United States at least--we have a social system that works to keep POC enslaved but has merely disguised itself as a "justice system." Until this system becomes dismantled, it's almost useless for people of privilege to wring our hands and clutch our pearls and seek some kind of phony cosmetic "liberation" solution to this appalling historical atrocity.
There's nothing here!