Because race is deeply entwined with culture, and culture is in everything.
Every culture owns cars, but not every subculture does things with cars that require you to do most of the work yourself in your driveway.
It’s like Ehrlichman’s famous quote: “We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.“
Every culture owns cars, but not every subculture does things with cars that require you to do most of the work yourself in your driveway.
It’s like Ehrlichman’s famous quote: “We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.“