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Essay / Wilson's Three Stages of Race Relations in America
Class affects the level of education you can afford. The fact remains that minorities are more likely to be poor, and the reason is America's history of white supremacy. Historically, they were kept out of work and exploited for cheap labor, only to be replaced once white workers had had enough. The general public still judges people based on their race and still excludes those who don't look like them. There are racial consequences to new labor practices, but those consequences would not exist if the racial motivation had not been there in the first place. If minorities hadn't been stigmatized, killed, exploited, enslaved, and all other sorts of things, they wouldn't be at such a high risk of being lower class. America has not moved away from racism or racist barriers, it has simply managed to hide them. Today, when a black person doesn't have a job, they say, "Well, that's because black people are lazy," but they didn't start calling them lazy until they stopped working for free. Today, when a black man is killed because he looked suspicious, we say, "Well, he had a history of violence and he was a thug," but when a white boy walks and kills countless people, we say: “He was lovely but he unfortunately suffered from mental problems. Wilson raises a good point, but there are still many racist barriers in the United States.