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Agreed. I worked for a large urban school district. I’m talking only about supervisors here, not about teachers or students. There was white prejudice against blacks. It was subtle, but it certainly was there.
And there was black prejudice against whites. That was more widespread, and not at all subtle.
As for the manufactured part, you betcha. We’d have to attend these meetings where we weren’t told that all racism was bad. We were instead told that white racism was bad. Bad, bad white people! This does nothing but get everyone all worked up.
This is a tough problem. There’s a chance it can be fixed, but only if the one-way accusations are discarded. And also discard the tendency to automatically tie everything to race: “I didn’t get hired. That company must be racist.”
(I know I’m dreaming here. Nothing will change. The race baiters like things just the way they are.)
“The race baiters like things just the way they are.” Indeed and race baiting has become a multi-million dollar industry