African American

You don't get American capitalism without the racist economic accelerant of slavery and then Jim Crow.

All of the conditions of our economy spring from that one "Original Sin" of the establishment of the world's first liberal bourgeois democracy not extending freedom to the slaves, which was a complete repudiation of the Enlightenment principles the country was nominally based on.

It's in the very air we all breathe. Until we unwind the structural racism entwined in our society, we will always be fighting this, and we will always be at the mercy of the worst of reactionary capitalism. It's no coincidence that this country goes bonkers after even the smallest reforms for Black Americans. They know just what button to press when their power is threatened, and their voters respond like rats addicted to cocaine.