Posted on 05/08/2023 8:54:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
We keep hearing about the need for a conversation about race, specifically a conversation about the misery the black community experiences from being oppressed by the systemic racism of the white people of the United States. The endless conversation hasn’t done much beyond harming race relations, but maybe there is some systemic racism in the United States. Let’s look at three examples of systemic racism that are oppressive to black Americans.
The first is affirmative action for black students applying to college. Was there ever a time when it made sense to admit a student to an elite school based on his or her skin color? Affirmative action only led to a mismatch between what students could achieve and what they were expected to achieve.
In 1998, in California, Proposition 209 eliminated racial preferences in college admissions. UCLA was particularly hard hit, as it had been using massive racial preferences to favor admitting black students. However, once Proposition 209 eliminated the mismatch, blacks graduated from UCLA at the same rate as before, even though fewer blacks were admitted to the school. Black students were no longer patronized by the idea that they couldn’t handle education at an elite school without the benefit of government interference.
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The second example of systemic racism is the demand for reparations. Of course, people who never owned slaves don’t owe anything to people who never were slaves, but somehow the idea of a government handout keeps coming up. Burgess Owens, a former NFL player, sums up how degrading reparations are. “The conversation of reparations...conveys a racist narrative that Black Americans are a hopeless, hapless, and oppressed race who need pity and handouts to succeed.”
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Black Americans are a hopeless, hapless, and oppressed race who need pity and handouts to succeed.”
I never used to believe that but when presented with the evidence….
The DEMOCRATS have RUINED BLACK FAMILIES! They have DESTROYED their schools, their cities, and have kept them on the DEMOCRAT PLANTATION!
And to think they’ll still vote for the party of slavery, Jim Crow and the KKK! Shame!
All my life, conservatives have been saying that the "worst thing" about liberal policies is that it hurts blacks.
Yeah, that's bad. But it's time for conservative to condemn these policies for hurting whites. We also matter.
the average IQ of 85 doesn’t help either.
Well said.
When they say, “systemic”, they mean capitalism.
That’s the purpose of it.
The democrats deliberately keep the underclass down, poor and miserable and tell them to blame their failures on Whitey.
Trump was correcting the problem. The dems hated that, and couldn’t allow it. They HAD to keep the underclass down to stay in power, so they colluded with the chicoms to spread a deadly virus which would enable them to close down businesses and put people on unemployment.
It didn’t stop Thomas Sowell from great achievements, but of course he never believed he was disadvantaged.
the cost to blacks themselves of the MSM/Leftist political myth of “systemic racism” is many thousands of dead via violence and $$ trillions in lost wealth for blacks
“The myth of systemic racism prevents black achievement in America”
Not in federal civil service it doesn’t........as long as by “achievement” you mean affirmative action hiring policies that give black people positions they have very little to no knowledge, skills or abilities to handle........I could write a book on what I saw in 31 years. 😏
Well, Democrats assisted in this, but blacks ruined their own families. They didn't have to accept LBJ's Great Society boondoggle, but they did and still do.
They’re born too stupid and need the superior white man’s aid to succeed-
and hence the welfare nation.
IQ tests invented by always wrong white liberal social scientists to promote the notion that they are the genius class-
it has now been perverted into welfare nation-
the best part being low IQ right wing folks can’t repeat the mantra enough reinforcing the leftist plantation.
IQ didn’t stop Oprah fr becoming the wealthiest black woman ever nor did it stop the US fr becoming home to more black million and billionaires than anywhere else-
it did give low IQ whites 100% common ground with the always wrong liberal social scientists though.
Yea they born dumb as a rock aka they need massive aid from the genius whites!
Beat me to it
He’s also likely close to twice the intelligence of average sub tropical African descended
The problem with the black race transcends political parties despite canards so many freepers love to repeat here
In the U.S., they’ve been deceived into thinking they’re special. This has resulted in laziness, and a false sense of entitlement.
“America doesn’t have a race problem, America has a problem with a race.”
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