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"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - LBJ
I feel the above has been universalised to some of the colonised.
And your penultimate statement reminded me of another book to add to my reading list: The Mahatma and the Ism by EMS