Today Is the end of my one-week challenge to provide examples of systemic racism. Here's a thread on what I learned.
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Persuasion-wise, "systemic racism" as a rallying cry probably makes things worse because it introduces a new thing to disagree about. But if tweaking our systems to add more checks against racism works, I'm all for it.
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As you said with the young black men, it's but one of many variables. Racism, perceived, systemic, overt, is but one variable in complicated calculus of interactions btwn govts, institutions, and people.
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Bottom of the well? What defines that? Geopolitical atmosphere? Geographical location? IQ? Family situation? Health?
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I liken it to walking on a narrow, muddy levee during a rainstorm at night, gingerly and single file. What are the odds that one might slip off that ridge, how muddy are the slopes that they may never climb back again, and why aren't we widening that levee, in case a dam breaks ?
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Capitalists push for equal opportunities. Socialists push for equal outcomes. I believe that in this country no matter where you start, you have the same opportunities to succeed as everyone else. Notice I didn't say equal probability.
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Vast majority of black people in US until mid 1900s were in poverty & low class as emancipated people had freedom but no wealth to pass down generations. Even if racism ended today without wealth redistribution disparity would still perpetuate for generations as you acknowledge
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...it's extremely difficult to get out of poverty and once out wealth building begins. With compounding it a foot up to begin becomes a distance that cant be made up. All that said, if systemic racism doesnt exist; the past creates leads to an environment where it would seem to
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Absolutely, social mobility is very hard. Systemic poverty also exists. What we are saying is that when race and poverty are present succeeding is that much harder. We are not saying is *the only* thing that makes social mobility hard but we can probably agree it's a major factor
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