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Modern day systemic racism, does it exist?

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I think that can be traced back to the single-parent issue but it was a setup from the beginning IMO.
As I said before, black people had always prized education--even during slavery. That's why we had luminaries like Benjamin Banneker all the way up to revolutionaries like Dr. Angela Davis.

The concept that education is a "white" thing that should be rejected is very new...recent since the Civil Rights Era. I'd agree that it is coincident with the spike in black unwed mothers (which is more precisely the problem than "single-parent")...and I'd argue that problem, as well, is not a function of racism but a dysfunction that has erupted within the ADOS culture since the Civil Rights era.

We can, yes, trace the roots of both these problems to the way Anglo culture was abominably instituted into the African kidnapped from Africa and stripped of their native functional cultures, but the resolution of that problem is not in whining about "systemic racism" that is not the real problem.

The real problem is within us. We have to change our culture.
 
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You are not reading what I am saying. It is an effect from the past 500 years.

I hear you. I still don't know what is happening today that is preventing black kids from learning to read. What happened 500 years ago is over. Long over. Black kids attend school now and have for a long time. The schools teach them to read or are supposed to.

Is it schools are not teachers ng them properly? Is it parents telling them they don't need to learn how to read?

What is it?
 
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Even though I think it's a problem that has been handed down, it is up to the black population to overcome it.
 
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It's undereducated people having undereducated children. Inner city schools in slums are often inadequate for the challenges that students face.
 
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Even though I think it's a problem that has been handed down, it is up to the black population to overcome it.

These are new problems since the 80s. These are problems generated within ADOS, so yes, it's up to the black population to overcome it, and that won't happen while pointing to "systemic racism."

We have to do the same thing the Black Muslims (NOI) began preaching 100 years ago. Look within ourselves and remove our own dysfunctions.
 
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Justice Dept. wins $31 million redlining settlement with L.A. bank

City National Bank was accused of discriminating against Black and Hispanic residents by avoiding mortgage-lending services in some neighborhoods​


The Justice Department announced a $31 million settlement on Thursday with a Los Angeles-based bank over charges that it discriminated against Black and Hispanic residents by avoiding mortgage-lending services in specific neighborhoods, the largest-ever financial award in a redlining case, officials said.

Justice officials touted the agreement as a victory for the department’s efforts to target redlining, an initiative that has secured more than $75 million from private lending institutions since its launch in October 2021. Among that total is a $20 million federal settlement with Trident Mortgage in Pennsylvania in July and a $13 million settlement with Lakeland Bank in New Jersey in September.
 
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That's good right? It's against the law to red line. Anyone caught refusing loans to people.based upon their skin color and not their ability to pay should be punished.

There are over 20,000 mortgage brokers in the US and thousands of lenders.

Not sure what your post is saying? That some companies have broken the law?
 
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It is organizational. It has nothing to do with society. The system of mortgage loans has no systemic racism. We have couple of organizations within the system that redlined. Or did they? I'd like to know if they were refusing to loan to blacks and Hispanics based on skin color.

Im afraid the articles were not clear enough.

I'm not convinced this was systemic. Could people go to another mortgage company? I'm sure they could. I don't feel that a couple of businesses screwing up is indicative of an entire system. It's more of an individual thing.
 
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It seems odd then, that this financial institution didn’t fight the fine.
 
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You have to understand the usefulness in using hypotheticals that don't reflect reality to argue with reality.


Just saw this move from desantis
DeSantis Blocks AP African-American Studies Course for Breaking Florida’s Anti-CRT Law
 
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Of course racism does. That's the whole idea behind it.

But thats not the claim you and others have made. You claimed that unequal outcomes proves systemic racism.

They don't. And you know it.
Incorrect.

If there is a crime perpetuated in equal measure by different groups but one group is substantially charged substantially more often, by that crime, that should be seen as a problem.
 
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Army officer pepper-sprayed by police gets $3,685 in $1 million lawsuit
That's great he was fired by the police. Too bad the courts don't feel that EVEN COPS WHO DONT PERFORM IN THE LINE OF DUTY WITH INTEGRITY, need not be consequenced.


I've seen teachers get worse consequences when the confiscated a kid's cell phone.

Ridiculous.
 
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