Most people have a tendency to believe that racism, can only occur when one race, mistreats or despises another race which does not match their own. While that is the most common form of racism, it does not take into proper account that people of the same race, can behave in a deliberate manner which is racist against their own race. For instance, while it use to be that police officers were almost exclusively white, throughout America, of which those white officers, invariably patrolled certain areas of the city, that were predominately black, and were often racist in how they dealt with those people of color -- the fact that today’s police force has a significant amount of black officers out in the field as well as in prominent authority positions, has not brought about a paramount change in how those of the black race, are dealt with by black police officers. The issue for why some, though certainly not all black police officers, are racist against those of the same color, has a lot to do with the fact that these officers, see themselves, at least while wearing the uniform, as primarily a cohesive law enforcement unit, and they therefore seek out and arrest what they perceive to be those that are the biggest menace to society, of which the face of street crime as exercised and policed in America, is predominately the underclass, represented in many instances, by those that are black.
Additionally, what most people do not take into account when it comes to racism, is that they don’t look deep enough at the core issue of what appears to be racism; for beneath the color of a given person’s skin, is something that is not discussed and debated upon often enough, which is that a lot of what appears to be racism, is in reality, a form of class discrimination. In other words, those that are white, can easily despise and even hate, those that are considered to be “trailer trash”, or skinheads, or all those that are uncultured and uncouth, as being beneath them, and therefore dismissing them of any import; as well, of course, we find that poor white simple folk, are themselves often despising those over-educated bleeding-heart white people that think that they know so much. So too, a similar dividing line exists for other individual races, for instance, of those that are successful, who come from favorable backgrounds and believe wholeheartedly that they represent their minority race well, who thereupon look down upon those of their same race, that are ill-educated, lazy, violent, deviant, and are considered to be a social embarrassment or worse.
The truth of the matter is that people of the very same color can and do hate one another; which thereby signifies that what they see in their respective mirrors has less to do with the color of their skin and has a lot more to do, with their perceived view of who and what they believe that they so represent in the world that they live in. it would seem to be, that those that are successful, no matter the color of their skin, have a strong tendency to want to associate with others that are of the same sort of success, of which, though they might still have a strong preference for those others to be of the same color, they seemingly draw a very distinct line, that deliberately separates them from all others of that race, that do not measure up to the standards that they so expect from them.