Trying to Understand Greed: A Deep Dive into Economic Racism

Exposing the Covert Mechanisms that Perpetuate Inequality and How Awareness Sparks the Passage to Liberation

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For my youth as a Caribbean person in America, I lived in New York and a bit in Florida. I was super naive about racism then — a child. I spent most of my formative years and careers in the Caribbean and worldwide. When I moved back to the USA, in particular, the Southern States, I traveled around Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, The Carolinas, Louisiana, and Texas. I even made it to states like California, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. One phenomenon kept raising its head like a deadly cobra in a basket — people talked about and experienced racism universally. Even when it did not seem to be an issue on the face of it, it was.

There was/is greed for resources coupled with the belief that the only way to achieve this zenith on a hill is to control and dominate someone. In the tapestry of societal structures, economic racism stalks in the shadows, quietly perpetuating systemic disparities that negatively influence historically marginalized communities. Throughout my musings, I hope to shed light on the insidious ways economic racism infects our lives, examining the covert mechanisms that sustain it and emphasizing the crucial role of…