We keep this system in place by...

"As long as we are being taught that where you end up is about your effort then the fact of inequality between groups of people is going to come to be seen as natural evidence of some people’s superiority and other people’s inferiority.

If you don’t educate underprivileged folks because you figure it’s just a waste of money, if you don’t provide equal job opportunity or equal housing opportunity, and if you don’t really care if there’s disproportionate incarceration because you think “those folks are all bad anyway,” then you create this sort of snowball effect where the uneducated and those who can’t find housing and can’t find jobs will almost invariably have to find some way to survive that will involve in some cases criminal activity which then will land them in jail.

So ultimately, we sort of keep this system in place by a combination of actual practices in the job market, the school system, etc, also, the underlying ideological glue of the society"

-Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequalty (Movie)