Step 1. Take a story about two teenage boys of roughly the same age, but of different race or different economic status. Bonus: Get them to be different both racially AND economically.
Step 2. Despite the many differences in their case histories and details, be sure that they are both being tried for similar crimes. Double Bonus: Make sure the white kid's crime outcome is of greater severity than the black kid's, even if his crime didn't happen because he intended to hurt someone but as a result of a severe lapse of judgement.
Step 3. Be careful to omit important details in your reporting of the story so that it appears that the white, rich teen was treated better than the poor, black kid. Triple Bonus: Be sure to emphasize the wealth of the father of the white kid and the stupidity of the defense used for the white kid, thereby implying that the kid got the leniency he did because of a better attorney and not because the judge was a generally lenient judge.
Step 4. Flavor your article with emotional language that creates a psychological bias against the judge and the rich kid. Quadruple Bonus: Submit this article as NEWS to places like the Huffington Post.
Step 5. Post a link about this "news" story to sites you know aren't likely to do any fact checking, but are likely to have a knee-jerk reaction and will help the story go "viral".
Step 6. Sit back and watch as the media helps millions of Americans everywhere eye one another with suspicion and hatred, absolutely convinced that our justice system is a complete failure and that race and class are the biggest problems we face.
Congratulations! You have created racial and class divides in 6 easy steps. You can now roll up your sleeves and get to work on conquering these divided people, since they are too suspicious of one another to trust each other and too demoralized to believe in the system they created. Repeat this process a few more times and you won't have to worry about collapsing America. She'll fall in on herself like a house of cards.
