Umm, &quot;treating different races differently&quot; is kind of the <i>definition</i> of racism.<p>But think it through further, please. <i>Why</i> do different races fall into different classes? There is more than one reason! For your average racist fuck, the answer is &quot;because race&quot;. But TPTB are not all, nor even primarily, average racist fucks. Like &quot;race&quot;, &quot;class&quot; is an invention that allows elites to control and extract rent from the rest of us. Classes seem to the average person to be more contingent categories than races, so the concept of race is used to bolster that of class. It&#x27;s easier to convince a poor white dude to oppress poor black dudes than it would be to convince him to oppress poor dudes in general.<p>Also, don&#x27;t expect policing to conform to reasoned expectations. It is <i>more</i> effective for its real purpose of controlling and extracting rent from the rest of society, because it is capricious and unpredictable.