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[–] CrypticMetaphr ago 

I'm also of the opinion that a lot of the problems we see in the US are more class motivated that race motivated. It just so happens that in a lot of cases, the minority population and the poor population have a lot of overlap. Everyone wants to boil the issue down to one catchy word, like racism or money or whatever, but there's almost never one single reason why a person or system ends up doing something. Yes its racism, yes its greed, yes its a system that wants to keep poor people poor and make rich people rich, but its also the availability of military equipment to police, quotas on arrests and tickets which means they're going to go harder on/have a bigger presence in places that are more likely to have crime (poor, black/hispanic communities), increasing hostility towards the police which in turns makes the police defensive which in turn makes people hostile, propaganda aimed at making middle class people hate and blame poor people for their problems, confirmation bias that makes police officers more hostile towards minorities, the list goes on.