A short critical analysis on my Laundry

I can understand now,
Why the whites would not have wanted to mix with the colored
For the fear of being stained
And yet, I, not being a racist, soaked them together.
A night later, I found
The poorer of the whites, 
Stained, and waiting to be discarded, 
Cry in tears of blue.
While the rich capitalist,
Nike in white armor,
Stood undeterred;
Impervious to the ordeal,
Survived the unwanted test of the times! 

 Perhaps, it was a conspiracy,
a drop of indigo, to inspire
a tumultuous riot,
and the enemy has walked away slyly
while leaving the victims in despair! 

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