re: Everything isn't political or social.

So brain washed

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Hell yes there is systematic racism:

Red lining
Voters suppression
Police harressment/brutally
Job discrimination
Character defamation
Excessive criminal sentencing

And I know this because I am black!!! I have experienced it. How do you undermine a person who has experienced what you say don't exist???

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So all the millions of successful Black Americans somehow overcame your claims of systemic racism? Nigerian immigrants who are very successful in America somehow were passed over by America’s systemic racism suppression?

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And I know this because I am black!!! I have experienced it. How do you undermine a person who has experienced what you say don't exist???

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Do yourself a huge favor and get as far away from the Dim party and their twisted ideology as you can. The Republican party released the iron shackles from your Ancestors arms and legs and the Dim party promptly enslaved your minds.....wake the frick up friend!

wow, I have a lot of thumbs downs but no response..... Again interesting???

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Red lining
Voters suppression
Police harressment/brutally
Job discrimination
Character defamation
Excessive criminal sentencing

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I have experienced it.

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Decades ago, perhaps.

But YOU have experienced a world where black people are begged to vote, where black people are hired and promoted solely for the color of their skin, where famous people who are half-black or less identify as black because the privilege that comes with it is good for their political, acting, or business careers. A world where not only are you given preferential treatment for college admissions and scholarships, but where you, as a black man are given race exclusive scholarships as well. A world where you, as a black man get preferred selection for government contracts. You are not oppressed.

Your political overlords have fed you a lie of systemic racism and you ate it up. Now there is nothing in your heart but hate. It reminds me of the Muslim guys I've worked with. Didn't matter where they were from, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, and even Pakistan - if something bad happened to them, or even disagreed with them, they were always "fricking Jews". It's just what they were taught.

I don't want to be disrespectful but I would like to respond to your claim.

red lining While this may still exist, I would think that this is more about economics than race. I also think that a lot of the black/white arguments I hear are really about wealth. More on that on another day.

voter suppression I know that this was common a long time ago. I saw it. But again, in my experience and I am somewhat involved in politics, this is not really happening now. Voter suppression is often the argument when people refuse to make it easier to vote without ID or without a physical presence at the poll. But that is more about a resistance to change, not suppression.

police brutality I know that there are some police officers who should never have been given a gun and I know that some white officers mistrust black people because they more often have to deal with black people who commit crimes, but I do not think that police as a whole pick on black people. In my experience, my black clients are often more defiant, less likely to want to be ordered around, and less trusting of police, which tends to lead to more negative engagements. I suggest that better pay and more training of the police would solve a lot of this.

job discrimination I just have to completely disagree here. I believe that the system actually discriminates most against whites and asians but is designed to favor black people.

Character defamation I can't see that as real. Claims like that are a case by case, not racially based, at least system wide.

excessive criminal sentencing I deal with the justice system every day. I see no real sentencing discrimination. A large portion of the prosecutors and judges I deal with are black people. Are you saying that those people discriminate against black people? Each defendant has a trial and a chance for a review of an excessive sentence. If there is a problem with the system, it is again that it is wealth based. The rich can afford the best lawyers and most complete defenses. The poor get what they are given. It just happens that a lot of black people are poor, but poor whites get treated the same way.