This country is FULL of people who are the victims of bigotry and racism, and yet have prevailed. Jews, Japanese (whose parents were confined to INTERNMENT CAMPS), Vietnamese, Koreans, even consider homosexuals...all the victims of various forms of prejudice, and yet they are generally better educated, more prosperous, more likely to be members of the Learned Professions than the General Population. More likely to be entrepreneurs.
A substantial percentage of American Blacks have overcome the impediments of our "racist" society.
And in contrast with this reality, we have SOME Black people who whine that "racism" prevents them from succeeding. And yet, I would wager that most cannot name a single time when they was refused a meaningful benefit because of race. They call it "institutional racism," and yet it is largely a myth. To anyone not blinded by ignorance, it is obvious that this country wants Blacks to succeed, and yet it is still used as an excuse for failure.
This is the standard delusional commentary coming from whites. You are completely wrong here. While Japanese were interred only during WW2, blacks were still facing government sponsored apartheid before WW2 and for 20 years by written law after WW2 ended. Institutional racism is no myth and until you turn black and live, you really need to stop lying to yourself.
In 2011, DEMOS did a study named
“The Racial Wealth Gap, Why Policy Matters”, which discussed the racial wealth gap, the problems associated with it along with solutions and outcomes if the gap did not exist. In this study DEMOS determined that the racial wealth gap was primarily driven by policy decisions.
“The U.S. racial wealth gap is substantial and is driven by public policy decisions. According to our analysis of the SIPP data, in 2011 the median white household had $111,146 in wealth holdings, compared to just $7,113 for the median Black household and $8,348 for the median Latino household. From the continuing impact of redlining on American homeownership to the retreat from desegregation in public education, public policy has shaped these disparities, leaving them impossible to overcome without racially-aware policy change.”
I would suggest that you should not make unlearned opinions.
"Because most whites have not been trained to think with complexity about racism, and because it benefits white dominance not to do so, we have a very limited understanding of it (Kumashiro, 2009; LaDuke, 2009). We are the least likely to see, comprehend, or be invested in validating people of color’s assertions of racism and being honest about their consequences (King, 1991). At the same time, because of white social, economic, and political power within a white dominant culture, whites are the group in the position to legitimize people of color’s assertions of racism.Being in this position engenders a form of racial arrogance, and in this racial arrogance, whites have little compunction about debating the knowledge of people who have thought deeply about race through research, study, peer-reviewed scholarship, deep and on-going critical self-reflection, interracial relationships, and lived experience (Chinnery, 2008). This expertise is often trivialized and countered with simplistic platitudes, such as “people just need to see each other as individuals” or “see each other as humans” or “take personal responsibility.”
White lack of racial humility often leads to declarations of disagreement when in fact the problem is that we do not understand. Whites generally feel free to dismiss informed perspectives rather than have the humility to acknowledge that they are unfamiliar, reflect on them further, seek more information, or sustain a dialogue (DiAngelo & Sensoy, 2009)."
There is no such thing as using racism as an excuse to fail. The root cause of the problems blacks face is white racism. Jews are not a race and most of them are white. You don't know a person is a homosexual unless they tell you therefore they are men and women of all races. Asians live at a rate of poverty almost equal to blacks and face the same discriminations and institutionalized racism. In 2017 the SCOTUS determined institutionalized racism still exists.
Busted.
