re: Thoughts about systemic racism

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You can look at the population to determine the advantages that the population as a whole experiences. But to then try and equate to some tangible, predictive, small scale mechanism is faulty logic. It just is. And most people do it.

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Well isn't that the point I'm trying to make? You may take issue with me isolating a child of either race, which is fine, but it doesn't change my basic premise that on the whole, more black children are born into bad situations (financially, familial, etc.) than white children. We know the situations produce few success stories, regardless of race, so when one race is born into those situations a high rate, it explains a lot of the eventual shortcomings that are blamed on systemic racism.

We're on the same page, at least I think, with respect to the overall question about systemic racism, but I do believe being white is an advantage over being black given the current demographics of this country. That doesn't mean any of it is racism though.