RE: It’s racist if racism is defined correctly.
Racism is simply recognizing certain reality based characteristic of a race.
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But hang on.... I would not be told to be extra careful if I went to say Freeport, Long Island ( huge black middle class, home owning population ).
That observation on the South Side of Chicago is based more on STATISTICAL data, than race. I’d be told to be just as careful if I walked on the seedy side of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
“But hang on.... I would not be told to be extra careful if I went to say Freeport, Long Island ( huge black middle class, home owning population ).”
That’s because that is not a random sample of the black population, but a self-selected specific subset of the population with qualities that differ significantly from the average.
If one could select only blacks with those characteristics to be in this country there would be no discrimination to speak of. But we are forbidden to do that - we have to take the whole population.