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Systemic Racism Exists
The Epoch Times ^ | July 21, 2021 | Lawrence Solomon

Posted on 07/23/2021 12:35:38 PM PDT by Twotone

Liberals are right to say systemic racism exists, but they’re wrong about its perpetrators. The systemic racists aren’t the non-woke white majority, who typically deny that systemic racism even exists. Today’s systemic racists—successors to proponents in the formal slavery period that ended with the Civil War and its informal continuance under Jim Crow—are America’s woke whites.

These white liberals, though well-intentioned, are so blinded by their racism that they believe blacks can’t feed themselves and their families without food stamps, can’t succeed on their own merits without affirmative action programs, and can’t even manage to get voter ID to cast a ballot for the candidate of their choice.

President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society and War on Poverty initiatives in the mid-1960s created the sea change that stymied the rapid advancements of blacks in overcoming the shackles of centuries of slavery. The Harvard Business School would describe the 1900–1930 period as “The Golden Age of Black Business” in which enterprising blacks were thriving despite the wholesale bigotry in society at large. Over the entire first half of the 20th century, in fact, blacks were less likely to be unemployed than whites and when they were, they were likelier to be reemployed faster than their white counterparts.

Moreover, despite their high poverty rate, most blacks had middle-class values—82 percent lived in married, two-parent households; 40 percent were small-business owners; children sought and got good grades. Harlem was a low-crime, vibrant community where whites as well as blacks felt comfortable walking the streets at night.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: danielmoynihan; racism; systemic; wokism
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1 posted on 07/23/2021 12:35:38 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

“Liberals are right to say systemic racism exists, but they’re wrong about its perpetrators.”

No, sorry, the libs will not be owned by people who accept their premises.


2 posted on 07/23/2021 12:38:29 PM PDT by cdcdawg (It's all so tiresome.)
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To: Twotone

The Cleveland Guardians? Were there Indian tribes complaining about the Cleveland Indians or the Washington Redskins? Perhaps there were, but I’ve never heard about it. To me, these are patronizing acts by pseudo-phonies who do this because it makes them feel good...it doesn’t matter how other feel. If I were native American, I’d be PO’ed by the patronage and feel some history was taken from me.


3 posted on 07/23/2021 12:42:14 PM PDT by econjack
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To: cdcdawg

But they are indeed the perpetrators.


4 posted on 07/23/2021 12:56:48 PM PDT by Twotone (While one may vote oneself into socialism one has to shoot oneself out of it.)
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To: cdcdawg

1900–1930 period as “The Golden Age of Black Business”

It looks like the Great Depression was the culprit not imaginary racism.

I’m sure the 1900-1930 time period was a golden age for many different peoples, then “the deflation happened.”

Here is a list of recessions during the supposed golden age.

1899-2900 recession

1902-1904 recession

Panic of 1907

Panic of 1910-1911

Recession of 1913-1914

Post WW1 recession August 1918-March 1919

1920-1921 Depression

1923-1924 recession

1926-1927 recession

1929-1933 Great Depression


5 posted on 07/23/2021 12:57:50 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
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To: Twotone

Woke people might be thought of as self-hating, but I think they act that way, paradoxically, to raise their status.

Most people that they interact with are not members of the grievance groups that they claim to champion. So, they can spend their days feeling superior, even if they’re members of the “privileged” groups that they claim to loathe.


6 posted on 07/23/2021 12:58:58 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: Twotone

“These white liberals, though well-intentioned, are so blinded by their racism that they believe blacks can’t feed themselves and their families without food stamps, can’t succeed on their own merits without affirmative action programs, and can’t even manage to get voter ID to cast a ballot for the candidate of their choice.”

Uh, black people have an average IQ of 85.

Without “programs” they’d be even more challenged.

Just a factual statement.


7 posted on 07/23/2021 1:12:00 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Twotone

Heck yeah it does against Whites, Asians and conservatives of any color. There should be a protest by Whites and Asians where they stay home for a week.


8 posted on 07/23/2021 1:32:08 PM PDT by Mastador1
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To: cdcdawg

Did you read the article? He’s saying that the libs are the perpetrators of the racism.


9 posted on 07/23/2021 1:37:57 PM PDT by Jacob Kell
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To: Twotone

It does we currently have a systemically racist administration.
One that proves the party switch never occurred.
We have a president who voted for segregation and the vice president his family were huge slave traders owning as many as 100 slaves at a time


10 posted on 07/23/2021 1:47:29 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Capitol surrounded by troops vetted to shoot us. Never again ask why the Jews walked into the cars.)
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To: Twotone

“Systemic Racism Exists”

Systemic Racism Exists especially in the Democratic Party

There, fixed it


11 posted on 07/23/2021 2:21:47 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti)
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To: Twotone

I don’k think for minute that they are well-intentioned at all.


12 posted on 07/23/2021 2:23:38 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Twotone

later


13 posted on 07/23/2021 2:34:04 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem by far is that most of the news media is agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: libertylover

Affirmative Action is the only one that comes to mind.


14 posted on 07/23/2021 2:34:40 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem by far is that most of the news media is agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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Rat infestations are known to cause systematic racism.


15 posted on 07/23/2021 3:09:46 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Jacob Kell

Yes, I am familiar with the tactic of “I know you are, but what am I?” Conservatives have been doing DR3 for decades. I have done my fair share of it. It has had zero impact. Robert Byrd has been dead for a while.

The reason is that Racism is not a neutral concept. It was invented by communists as a weapon to use against what used to be a white and Christian establishment.

What is called “racism” is simply the in-group preferences that all groups do within their own cultures; it’s just made into a disease when white people do it. That’s why the Left says with a straight face that nobody but whites can be racist. It didn’t used to mean something else. It wasn’t a benign concept that the Left corrupted. It is their weapon. They invented it. We have been trying to accept the concept and turn it against them for over 40 years. It has not worked.

We can argue against their morality without accepting it.


16 posted on 07/23/2021 3:22:09 PM PDT by cdcdawg (It's all so tiresome.)
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To: unclebankster

1899-2900 recession

Wow, that’s some recession, one thousand and one years long and most of it still ahead of us, the future looks bleak indeed!


17 posted on 07/23/2021 4:56:06 PM PDT by RipSawyer (I'm all out of sarc tags.)
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To: Twotone

The demand for Racism far exceeds the supply. (Unless you actually define Racism rationally) .They bang the drums claiming (fictional) Systemic Racism. In order to meet the demand the RATs have supplemented the few traces of actual Racism with Synthetic Racism

18 posted on 07/23/2021 5:04:55 PM PDT by Nateman (If the Left is not screaming , you are doing it wrong.)
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To: RipSawyer

“1899-2900 recession

Wow, that’s some recession, one thousand and one years long and most of it still ahead of us, the future looks bleak indeed!”

1899-1900 recession is the appropriate time frame.(take it up with the economist sect)

Thanks for correcting my error.

Do you want to add value to the conversation, or is that it?


19 posted on 07/23/2021 5:36:18 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
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To: Twotone

...against white people, not dark skinned people.


20 posted on 07/23/2021 6:12:20 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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