Ana the Ist
Aggressively serene!
Sure. It's better, but hardly perfect in many respects.
I'll come back to this next post.
If the system keeps consistently return white people to power, then it's not unreasonable to question why, and it's quite probable that some leftover bias remains. Could be structural, but due to a different aspect of the system as opposed to just actively saying to black people "you can't run for office", or it could be that it's due to leftover poverty derived from the actual legally ensconced discrimination that means black people are more concerned with day to day surviving than doing things like running for office.
Right....it could be any of those things. Let's consider another possibility...
People form societies for the explicit purpose of their own benefit. Given that...it would be strange to expect them to not be power, right? I would expect English people (ethnically) to hold positions of power in England. Even if they were open to ideas of multiculturalism....it would take a long long time for anyone else (ethnically) to attain the same saturation of positions of power.
After all, it's not like we question why Chinese people hold power in China or Russians hold power in Russia or Guatemalans hold power in Guatemala.
So in the US....which has been historically 80-90% white for all but the last 4 decades ....it's not that strange to see white people with wealth or authority or whatever is seen as power.
Furthermore, in describing the "system" we also have a word for accepting and working within the system to attain that power. That word is assimilation. If any group is kept from assimilating....we recognize how difficult it is for that group to attain power within the system. It's nearly impossible.
Yet for some reason, when people voluntarily decide to not assimilate (for any reason) people act as if that's not going to have a serious impact on their ability to gain power in the system. I find that odd.
Well, that would be nice, but the entire reason there are mass protests by and for black people in the US at the moment is that that 'punishment' tends to be way more severe - often fatally severe - for many cases involving black people.
What's "often"? I get that people are sometimes treated unfairly for racist reasons....but other people think it's often....others think it's most of the time....others think it's nearly all the time.
There doesn't seem like a reasonable way to tell who is actually correct....because we can't all be correct about this.
You need to distance yourself from this idea of 'A Racist Person'.
Isn't that what you mean though? When you think that a black person gets an unfair sentence because of racism....how do you think that happens if it isn't a racist judge, or prosecutor, or jury....or someone else? The law itself doesn't say "if you're black, you get a longer sentence". It says the exact opposite.
It individualises the problem when the problem is a collective one, and it becomes an exercise in proving whether a given person is A Racist Person, as opposed to just having said or done something racist that they should be held accountable for.
How do you know if someone acted out of racism? Isn't that what you mean when you say that they "did something racist"?
It sounds like you just want to assume they're racist.
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