I've pondered this subject, off and on, for 40 years. With classmates and friends when I was a school-kid growing up, as a business owner hiring and interacting with employees and as a retired adult shopping and talking to friends and people in my neighborhood.

First, allow me to define very uniquely American racism because I don't want you to confuse American racism with racism as thought of very generally.

So to begin with, racism in America is distinctive, it's idiosyncratic and it's strategically exclusive to America. Sure, people dislike Muslims in America and that is racism but it's a newer American phenomenon and I assure you that Muslim racism is quite different from American racism. The racism I'm talking about is ingrained in the social fabric of our American society and maintained carefully by those in power. It stems from all the way back where it started; from within our era of slavery, and stretches right smack dab into the 21st century. The same pinkish white male dominated social structure that existed then still exists today. A medium black colored president, sort of light brown, maybe ochre if you will, doesn't effect the very pinkish white domination of the political arena. From the Joe Biden's to the Larry Summers' and from the George Bush's to the Bill Clinton's we have the pinkish tan off-white and off-their-rockers pink-faced ruling class making all of the decisions that effect our daily lives either positively or negatively. Who do you think the laws those very pink decisions represent are in favor of? Me and You?

Racism isn't something that just happens to uneducated people.

Racism is a strategy.

Over the last 100 years racism has morphed, it's evolved, it's expanded, it's adapted, it's transformed and transmogrified and although it was once exclusively white against black today it encompasses and includes women, students, children (only your children), workers (all workers), non-workers (especially them), the poor (even more especially them), the middle class (oh yes, they haven't escaped) and almost everyone else in the country that isn't pinkish off-white, upper class, well educated and somehow involved in politics, the military or national and multinational corporate management.

Racism is their strategy.

We're a nation of laws and these movers and shakers, as they're called, make each and every legal decision regarding every single aspect of your life from birth to death and it's all based on racism. It's a strategy because it's policy.

Bernays made the postulation that man (that includes women, the word 'man,' and that's an example of the strategy of racism) is inherently stupid and that this stupidity endangered Democracy and since that Democracy today only includes the pinkish off-white ruddy faced corporate managers, the vast and expansive pinkish off-white managed swollen-faced US military and the immeasurable and immense and seriously bloated pinkish off-white tight-faced US government bureaucracy. It doesn't include you and me because of racism. We're not pinkish off-white enough.

Bernays made the further postulation that because of this stupidity man had to be controlled, fine-tuned, adjusted and massaged into existence to become a pliable structure able to be carefully molded and contoured into the perfect citizen of his country, the perfect automaton, the perfect worker which could be influenced by something called public relations which is then the controlling factor for developing public perception. We are our perceptions.

But that didn't work. Man isn't a pliable structure and the very pinkish puffed up off-white miscreants possessed with genetic psychological perversities including Narcissistic Behavior Disorder (ND) developed and institutionalized what already existed to a large degree in the manifestation of racism and that then evolved, matured and blossomed into the racism we have today. A very pure form of racist policy. Racism without empathy for anyone.

It's who our soldiers are, how they're chosen and how our soldiers are sent to war but it's more than that. It's about a government health care plan for them but not for us (Yes, the Congressional Health Care Plan is THE BEST in this country and Socialism does work in certain instances, if they want it to). It's about laws for them with federal jails for them and laws for us and state prisons for us, unless of course we break one of their laws, then we get to go to their federal prison. It's about food for them (Organic is unaffordable for us) and food for us made with genetic modification techniques and food additives of every conceivable type. It's about a set of rules, a set of laws, statutes, ordinances, mandates, proclamations, acts, bills, rulings, judgments, licenses and dictates that direct your life, control your actions and your path in life, and become the very substance of who you are.

And it's all controlled with racism.

We hate because the system is designed to promote American racism.

And that hate separates us.

Racism works.