Why marginalization, racism and oppression are so difficult to overcome. | the democracy letters

Marginalization is a power principle built on fiction. It can be employed in every circumstance. And it can only be overcome if we understand its double-faced nature.

In the 1990s, administrations began playing classical music in public places occupied by drug addicts, the homeless, and vagabonds. The aim was not to solve the problem, of which these men and women were merely a symptom, but to clear public spaces of those deemed undesirable. The objective was not to overcome marginalization, but rather to sustain it.