“ The method is complex: limit educational and training opportunities for women and for people of color and then withhold adequate paying jobs with the excuse that people of color and women are incapable of filling them. Blame the economic victim and keep the victim’s self-esteem low through invisibility and distortion within the media and education. Allow a few people of color and women to succeed among the profit makers so that blaming those who don’t “make it” can be intensified. Encourage those few who succeed in gaining power now to turn against who remain behind rather than to use their resources to make a change for all. Maintain the myth of scarcity-that there are not enough jobs, resources, etc. to go around- among the middle class so that they will not unite with laborers, immigrants, and the unemployed. The method keeps in place a system of control and profit by a few and constant source of cheap labor to maintain it.
Suzanne Pharr