Do We Really Have Systemic Racism???

Is that a system, a policy, or malicious action?

Is that a system, a policy, or malicious action?

Again, is that a system, a policy, or some kind of action?

When someone says "systemic", I think about systems. What, specifically, makes a system racist? Jim Crow, those were racist systems. They were designed to be exclusionary. The War on Drugs, while riddled with racist intent, is not systemic racism; it could be applied equally to everyone.

So, I'm still waiting for an objective definition of "systemic."

 

If your intent is to exclude or segregate by race, then it's racist. There's still a lot of opportunity, even when there's racist policies in the US. The Chinese didn't stop coming even as they were treated rather badly. The Italians, Irish, Germans, etc. kept coming despite some policies that worked against them. The one thing you could do in the United States that many other countries prevented, was open a business and earn a living for your family without waiting years to get through red tape and official corruption. You might be shunted into a virtual ghetto with people of your own kind, but no one was going to stop you from buying some produce and starting a grocery. In Italy, for example, it could take a man 3 years to get official approval just to sell fruit. They didn't always come because of oppression, they often came for opportunity. My greatx2 grandfather came from England, where class stratification is still a problem, for the opportunity and he did very well.

 

I said had to change. Meaning many did.
Slavery. Redlining. Jim crow. Discrimination.
Many of those ended with the civil rights movement.
3 generations ago.
Do now much of country has grown up with those laws on place.
Which should reduce racial discrimination.
But not completely.

 

One of the things we can learn from the Bible is how God formed the Hebrew nation. With borders, criteria for citizenship, law and order.

Uncontrolled borders is not a Christian value. And not even nice.

 

yes. i think we do. black men have proven capable in every endeavor, and black women even more so.

 

Well they did try to target muslims but the courts stopped them.

 

I don't think restrictive covenants are enforceable any more: