We didnt need a poll for that. Jim Crow never went away, it was rebranded into something else
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2024
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System is rigged against them. Less generational opportunities ends up less college. Lack of black bodies in tech means less work experience. If you don't have work experience or degrees, it makes it hard to get hired.
Doesn't happen that lack of generational wealth puts them is poorer sections of town away from the best business opportunities.
<20% of the pop in my area is black. < 5% of my resumes were anything but while male.
It’s the New Jim Crow.
Ya think?
Everything in the US has been built on the back of racism.
Even the stupid things that hurt everyone! That's the best part. We've been so into racism as a country that we shoot ourselves in the foot constantly to spite black people.
There's plenty of examples, but the one that always comes to mind for me first is public transportation. We led the world for a while there. Buses and trams and all sorts of ways to get around easily. It feels awfully coincidental that we let black people ride wherever they wanted on the bus and all of a sudden public transportation takes a back seat to car infrastructure right after.
institution: yet another non-human living asexual hyperobject constantly having sex with itself stopping only to shamefully laugh at the moments in which we respire.
They are
US Senate: specifically designed to give slave states more power. Still not proportional today, still disempowers Black voters who live in more populous states
Electoral college: specifically designed to give slave states more power. Still in place today, still disenpowers Black voters in more populated areas
Washington DC: no senators, no congress representatives, tons of Black citizens
Qualified Immunity: free pass for police to kill Black people
Felon voting exclusions: more Black people are imprisoned than white people and are barred from voting at all.
That's just from memory. There are so many more, but I'm a white guy so I'm ignorant of most of them.
There is a documented institutional conspiracy against Black people and it's right out there in the open.
The war on drugs was admittedly motivated to try and make it illegal to be Black in America, by disrupting their communities with false accusations of drug use.
Also by selective enforcement when people are using drugs reasonably and responsibly. Or unreasonably or irresponsibly, for that matter.
Plus all the public wealth that went to the enforcers of laws that don't benefit the public and the weapons manufacturers that armed them. And the political power that came with giving them that and letting them keep it.
They don't even try to hide it. It's pretty common knowledge.
That's how they getcha
Conservative black people must have permanent surprised Pikachu face from shit like this.
People accept that racism is systemic but reject any form of systemic change and wonder why racism is still here.
People accept that racism is systemic
People don't. And the reasons why are, themselves, systemic. Mass media is dominated by white nationalists and peppered with Uncle Tom types willing to say anything to get ahead.
This creates all sorts of inertia and friction in any political reform campaign, as misinformation and FUD provoke a coordinated backlash against even the most milquetoast social changes.
Wow almost as if us institutions are racist
They are.
they are correct
Because they are.
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