>>98543151Racism is a distinctly different concept than privilege. They're both systemic in their roots but in their execution racism belongs in a more direct social interaction level, given its components are born out of the basic workings of the human identity and the primal concept of Is/Is not.
Privilege is a lot less tangible, though just as effective. But it's also far more flexible to changes in the context.
Now, those aren't things that pile up because they simply come from different sources. The homeless person who is also a victim of racism isn't "worse off" because the problem is racism is something they were always going to have to deal with.
The lack of monetary fluidity overpowers anything in most current societies, to the point that it removes most traits of identity from its sufferers. When someone is extremely poor, they have absolutely no power, no value in our eyes. And thus no real identity.
Media stories that try to deal with both poverty and race always mess that up and either focus too much on the racial aspect (poor because race, which is a backwards message to send even if you're trying to "point out a problem") or they completely forget to address it and you have the stories about the forgotten gems of humanity... who are of course, mostly "people like you" (only the dominant races should be remembered and extracted from squalor).
tl;dr everything is more complicated than young internet jockeys would like it to be, and at the end microactions are more effective than speeches and arguments
