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RJSV:
IMO (My opinion):
   The whole systemic racism thing has to be viewed in the context it has been presented, that is the presidential elections, past and immediate future; all part of the '2024' campaign cycle.
   Racism claims, and discussion will be DROPPED like hot cakes, if better (propaganda) substitute arises.  That means the recent attention on abortion rights, and transgender rights....It has the appearance of trial balloons, whatever route has the most visible effect, on the Nov. 2024 election day.

   That means, yes, those white folks weeping so profusely will then drop the whole racism thing, if or when some other, divisive issue has more pull, with the voters.  No actual care about racism, abortion rights, or whatever...it's election season pretense, which is a pretty sick state of affairs.
They don't actually care, as it's largely just a calculated theater.
I.M.H.O.

Sal Ammoniac:
I'm not going to bother reading this thread any more because it's too full of guys arguing there's no systemic racism in the U.S. and that it's all about people claiming victimhood.

Yes, there are laws against racism in the U.S., but if any of you think for a minute that those laws stop racism, you're delusional. Not only that, but the Supreme Court has gradually been whittling away the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

Bye...

HuronKing:

--- Quote from: coppice on May 18, 2023, 10:11:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: abeyer on May 18, 2023, 10:05:35 pm ---...and race-based "redlining" laws and policies in property purchasing/financing, which weren't fully banned in the US in some form or another until about 50 years ago.

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I often see redlining laws described as race based, but everything I've actually read about them says they were affluence based. They affected broke people of all races, and the US has a lot of broke white people.

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The vast majority of it [redlining] was a smokescreen for blatantly racist objectives.

Levittown, New York, was a model for suburban growth in post-WW2 America. This was in their town charter:

https://ushistoryscene.com/article/levittown/

--- Quote ---Originally, the Levitts’ racist policy was enshrined in the lease itself, which stipulated that “the tenant agrees not to permit the premises to be used or occupied by any person other than members of the Caucasian race.”  That provision was later struck down in court as unconstitutional, but Bill Levitt continued to enforce racial homogeneity in practice by rejecting would-be black buyers.
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https://projects.newsday.com/long-island/levittown-demographics-real-estate/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trailblazers-the-story-of-the-myers-family-in-levittown-pennsylvania

Depending on how old you are (and if you live in the USA of course), these were policies that our grandparents/parents would've experienced and ones whose effects we are still dealing with today.  :(

And like any good engineering problem, acknowledging the origins of the problem is the first step towards correctly solving it/ensuring it doesn't happen again.

RJSV:
Recent posts, today, indicate that, perhaps Gov. Newsom's California reparations payments, of 1.2 $ million dollars per decendant, might be fair but....oh wait a second, Newsom now saying "Nevermind, we don't have the money....".
Yeah, hilarious tease, but (he) can't deliver on it, and even has quickly now stated that CASH isn't all that important, in reparations, anyway.  Newsom, in same press conference, stated that the Reparations Committee 'went a little overboard',  in the cash proposal, (a commitee he appointed).
   
   See how quick and easy the offer, and cancel that, as they mostly, don't really care, only that pesky election scheduled for 2024 is what matters.  It sure shows that way.

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Sal Ammoniac on May 19, 2023, 07:00:54 pm ---I'm not going to bother reading this thread any more because it's too full of guys arguing there's no systemic racism in the U.S. and that it's all about people claiming victimhood.

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Yep, thread locked for bit to calm people down. Maybe we can get this back on topic at some point.

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