Florida Home Depot line on a Sunday Morning . Nasty yellow tshirt white guy rolls up behind me . Unshaven , stank like last weeks road kill soaked in week old beer with cig butts floating in it . Reeked of poverty and despair . Black family rolls up to next line over . Sunday church dressed . Ties , spring hats , shiny shoes , laughing about dad having to plant the flowers mom just bought . Nasty yellow Tshirt guy starts cussing under his rank road kill breath about those uppity N ' s ' coming out in public akkin like dey owned da world . He was fucking inflamed literally spitting mad at their very existence in the same air space he was inhabiting . And it hit me . Tshirt guy was perfectly ok being uneducated , dirty , smelly , poor , run over by the world as long as he could maintain the illusion that he was better than at least one class of people because of his color . The appearance of a well dressed , middle class black family nuked his illusion badly enough that he didn ' t even finish making his purchase . I have never looked at racism the same again since that moment and with full realization how the elites of the world use this to keep guys like him under their thumb by promoting it .