John Sonmez

Honestly, point it out to me. Show me some documentation where it is explicitly in the policy of a major American institution to be racist. I would like to see it if it exists and I will be right there with you fighting it.

Institutional does not mean explicitly written. It means that it is embedded into the institution of this country. How many non white men has been president since the country was stolen and fought over? That, my friend, is the "institution" of which we speak... How long since

The problem with that theory is that there is no way to prove racism or for me to disprove it unless we use what is explicit. If I were accused to being a thief, you'd need proof. If you accused my organization of institutional thievery, you'd need to show that it was codified.

I can code and program as well as many of my fellow students, but I am often the only black male in the classes that we have, and coincidentally, or not, I am also the one most often over looked or whose ideas are tossed out without thought until everything else had been tried.

That’s unfortunate, but it also does not prove racism is the cause.

Truth, that's why I said it's hard to prove, unless you have lived with it and understand the subtleties... Like learning a foreign language vs growing up with it.

I’ve encountered direct racism where there was no question of it. I’ve been beaten up and called racial slurs. I don’t have to guess.

I mean, yeah, there is still that, but even that isn't as bad as the, kind where it's the double meanings, the you work here because we had to hire the token non white person, the looks like I'm gonna harm them just because I'm a black man, and we all see how the news portrays us