re: Systematic Racism

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I think systemic is the term

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Partially...it's systemic faux outrage/victimhood

What. no 'structural' racism?

I understand structural racism is closing fast on systemic racism - may be neck and neck.

Gimme some of that structural racism any day...

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Can anyone enlighten me more on how black people in this country are a product of systematic racism? The only systematic racism I know of is what the Democratic Party does to their black voters.

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You obviously meant systemic. It's way less bad than it used to be, but it seems silly to pretend it's completely gone. The Arbery case is a perfect example and actually does have echoes of the Jim Crow days. It seems very hard to believe that if the races had been reversed there that the perps would not have been immediately arrested and charged.

However, I do not really believe that en masse, systemic racism holds a great number of Americans down.

I recommend listening to Glenn Loury. He's a prominent black professor/economist who speaks often on these matters. His recent conversation with Wilfred Reilly almost completely dispelled the meme that coronavirus = racism against black people.

LINK

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Do you realize why this is done? Can you imagine the surrounding areas of the hood if the money and food stopped flowing. God have mercy on the suburbs.

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WHile this would be devastating the real reason is because the rich and powerful are able to maintain their positions of wealth and power because we are all collectively taxed and the revenue is used to subsidize their production costs. Poor people do not own Walmart and section 8 housing and companies that construct public transportation projects...those are the rich and powerful and the apparent beneficiaries of the social safety net that those on the right cry about. The REAL beneficiaries are the political class...on both sides...because the wealthy can get preferential treatment through politics like tax cuts and reduced regulation for some but not all and the poor can get what appears to be a free handout....and the political class panders to their base of support and the rest of choose sides and pretend we are all in this together when in fact the political class, on both sides, knows we aren't all in it together....they work like mad men to keep us at one another's throats and reap the power and the wealth.

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