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This is a very interesting article, but this quote from it sums up a major challenge for some of us who might otherwise jump right into conservatism:
Can race politics be transcended without abandoning a critique of racism?
I personally have always been able to see things from angles other than race but I could never forfeit the right to cease all future complaining about racism. It still happens and its past still affects many things to this day.
Is racism still a problem? Yes.
Is white racism most minorities greatest problem? Only to relatively few. Socialism does more to "keep blacks down" than does racism now. So do "Civil Rights leaders". The NEA is likely even a greater problem to blacks and hispanics than white racism. I'd dare say that black racism is likely a bigger problem for blacks generally than is white racism - since it eats from the inside and undermines attempts to emulate success.
The biggest thing to help blacks is a growing economy where people who discriminate based on irrelevant factors such as race pay a price for their stupidity. Only slightly lesser, and perhaps not actually lesser, is breaking the school monopolies.
It infuriates me that people will waste so much potential, and sacrifice so much of even their own children's lives over the school-choice vs. Teacher's Union issue. That people will not only leave their children in this, but fight for it so that they can specifically have government-paid black teachers, in schools run into the ground by people who are there primarily because of their race, disgusts me.