Everything you just said, about how the white worker sees his/herself as better off than his/her black co-worker because his/her boss is white. Or, that white workers for some reason support capitalism. While I agree that everything you are saying is true, to a certain extent and not even close to completely, you are making the grave mistake as framing the behaviour of black and white robotically as some inherent behaviour rather than a form of cultural development that is constantly subject to change. Further, if this is the case, then the incorporation of race and gender into meaningful class analysis is dependent of the work that we, the people, put into developing it. I don't buy arguments like this is how so and so behave therefore I am going to roll over and take it. That's crap, the labour movement is a movement of people who make conscious decisions, the black movement is a movement of people who make conscious decisions, the women's movement is a movement of people who make conscious decisions. If we, as people within these movements worked a little harder to build a movement that combined these three so-called 'identities' then we would see leap of change in the social behaviour of many groups.

>Afrikan in America with such a broadly brushed stroke?
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>Certainly racism is a tool of oppression in capitalism.
>Certainly less than 5% of the population controls most of
>this country's wealth.
>Undoubtedly many of the wealthy individuals in this country
>are white.
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>But do you think that working class whites also support this
>system? I feel that due to the feudal mindset of the
>European and it's inherit imprint on the popular culture,
>the status quo is buttressed by people who live vicariously
>thru others that are more successful.
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>Your prejudiced worker might not be better off than the his
>black coworker, but he might FEEL better cus his boss is
>white.
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>so sure he'll buttress a thought pattern, or economic
>system, or a tax plan or a bill in congress that help keeps
>ole boi down...
>
>or maybe I'm just pessimistic. I can't spell it either.
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