text: A lot of things don't "seem" racist. But they're generally done in favor of disenfranchising people that typically fall into a certain demographic.  Take things like voter id laws. That's not racist on first look, but the second you realize that the majority of people in the lowest income bracket (the people that would have the hardest time obtaining an Id) are of minority status, you realize that it was put in place to prevent African-American turnout.