Chicago Police Dept. Plagued by Systemic Racism, Task Force FindsProfessor Tiger wrote:But I thought the whole point of this routine exercise is to blame it all on slavery, Jim Crowe, the KKK, the Nazis, Republicans, George Bush, conspiracies, The Man, and above all, whitey!? And then, logically, start looting and burning down businesses in your own neighborhood.
That's the time-honored template. What am I missing here?
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Curb your sarcasm. Every time they do an evidenced based, data driven study, the answer comes back: systemic racism. Blame FDR. Blame Ted Kennedy. Blame the Librul Lamestream Media - but the objective record consistently and invariably says there is a significant racial bias against black people that permeates American society. That's not scapegoating - that's data.
I know white Americans are tired of feeling guilty and think that they are disconnected by time from the injustices of the past - "we let those people have a black president!" - but systemic problems aren't fixed by saying "sorry, now suck it up and move on." You have to actually fix the problems.