Subject: Re: Another Win For President Trump
"Still where? This is what pisses me off the most, where exactly does this racism live? I will tell you where, in the hearts of men, of many men, of far too many men. But that is entirely different than labeling our beloved country itself as racist. The fact is the United States makes continuous improvements as it moves farther and farther away from a racist past. There are racist individuals, and some are in government but that still does not make us a racist country."

Wrong. Utterly ignorantly wrong. Despicably wrong.

The racism in this country is systematic, not just in the hearts of men.

I am sure you want to feel good about yourself and just pretend that racism is only a bunch of yahoos with swastikas tattooed on their bodies that nobody really likes and conservatives only tolerate because they vote for people you like. That isn't the way it really is though. That type of racism is rare and easy to deal with because it is so obvious and so dumb that even sympathetic people like you cannot ignore it. Racism is deeper than that though. Way deeper.

Some recent (i.e. post civil rights era) examples of systemic racism include:

- In the 1980's drastic mandatory sentences were given out for users of crack cocaine as opposed to more lenient flexible sentences of users of regular cocaine despite them being essentially the same drug. The difference was that crack was a low-income, inner-city drug while regular cocaine was used by a higher income, whiter clientele. As a result, hundreds of thousands of black men were thrown in prison and had their (and their families) lives destroyed while most white folks with the same addiction problems were given probation, more lenient sentences (such as probation or rehab), or just had law enforcement look the other way. That was literal systemic racism. That was your country, your justice system acting in a racist manner. It wasn't just one judge or one police officer acting with racism in their hearts.

- In one of his last acts as a State Senator from Illinois before becoming a U.S. Senator, Barrack Obama helped push through a bill that required police to fill out select information about police stops when it involved searching the vehicle for drugs. Basically, the police had to list the race of the driver, whether or not the car was searched, and whether or not drugs were found. This information was collected and tabulated. What was found was that police disproportionally stopped more black people than white people. Black people disproportionally had their cars searched more than white people. The real kicker though was that white people were more disproportionally found to have drugs in the car than black people were. I.E. if there was a bias, it should have been to stop and search cars with white drivers, not black ones. That is a perfect example of systemic racism. It wasn't just one racist cop or one racist judge. It was literally your country, your justice system acting in a racist manner.

- we could look at any numerous controlled studies done of hiring and salary discrimination based upon the race of the applicant. Another example of systemic racism. Again it isn't just one racist person, it is the whole system. That is your country.

I know you want to ignore all of that (how sad that so much or your worldview is based on ignoring thing you find inconvenient). You want to pretend racism is only in the hearts of a few men. You think this only because you choose to ignore all of the evidence that it is systemic. It is your country acting in the racist manner. You aren't going to like to hear it, but you are a big part of the problem. You probably think you don't have a racist bone in your body and that the only racism in this country is reverse racism because two people with the same paper qualifications the black person is more likely to get accepted to college because they are black. You refuse to educate yourself, your inability to even acknowledge the systemic racism in this country is why it persists.

So stop your pathetic whining about how your country is labeled a racist country and get your head out of your bowels and face reality.