**AA GROUP** Rhetorical question: Why is White America so invested in racism? [View all]

My answer: For the same reasons that Male America is so invested in sexism, and the same reasons that American society as a whole is invested in capitalism.

Property. Wealth. Status. Influence. Power.

Think about it: If private property is a society's measure of wealth, and wealth is the single most important marker of status, influence, and power in that society, then who in their right mind wouldn't want to own as much property as they possibly could? And if women and black people are legally considered property...see the connection yet?

This is why the South seceded. This is why racism is still a thing in 2016 - because old habits die hard, and treating black people as the property of white men (whether it be legally, economically, politically, socially, or culturally) is a habit as old as European colonization of the Americas itself...