The claim that reparations doesnt work is racism personified.
reparations would be a problem since we'd have to give Indians back their land and pray they would rent it back to us at affordable rents.
Sounds like you have a problem with giving things back your ancestors stole. Thats the problem with most whites.
I surrender, you are absolutely right. I never owned slaves, I had nothing to do with slavery and I didn't choose my race. You are absolutely right, us white folks are at all the fault all the time. I don't know WHY or how. I am sure you black pseudo intellectuals can fill in the blanks. You Always do.
You arent surrendering. Youre whining. The fact is that white people have a problem giving back what their ancestors stole. If youre claim is that its impossible or difficult youre just making excuses. Its not hard or complicated.
Actually we could start with the tax rolls beginning from the time when segregation and discrimination were legal in the U.S. I've seen several threads in just the last few days regarding studies that show that black property owners were deliberately assessed at inflated rates as opposed to whites.
To more thoroughly understand this though you would need some background on topics like redlining (loans denied), subprime lending (loans granted but at terms that are comparable to unlawful usary), black people having their taxes go to pay for schools for white kids while their children had their schools shut down for 5 years, etc.
Dr. Carol Andersen explains and analyzes all of this and more in her book "White Rage" (The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide). The book sheds light on why so many black people continue to raise the issue of institutional racism and why when we say that racism is woven into the fabric of society, it's due in large part, according to Dr. Andersen, to economics.
Robot Check
You realize time moves on? 99% of us (including YOU) aren't connected with slavery. Institutional racism is basically an anti white liberal thing.
No, it's not an "anti-white liberal thing". If you would quit focusing exclusively on slavery (as I've already explained in my first comment to this thread) and instead look at what's going on in the U.S. today, you should be able to understand and follow along with what we're explaining.
I looked this up specifically for you because I realize this is not intuitive, we had to learn about how this works ourselves:
"Structural racism is a complex, dynamic system of conferring social benefits on some groups and imposing burdens on others that results in segregation, poverty, and denial of opportunity for millions of people of color. It comprises cultural beliefs, historical legacies, and institutional policies within and among public and private organizations that interweave to create drastic racial disparities in life outcomes.
Because structural racism operates invisibly, and is difficult to define succinctly except in abstract academic prose (like the preceding para-graph), the best way to convey a sense of what it is and how it functionsis by concrete examples.
***Take the original exclusion of agricultural and domestic workers from eligibility for Social Security benefits in 1935. Because they could not collect old-age or unemployment benefits, fieldhands, sharecroppers, maids, and nannies -constituting the bulk of the black labor force in the New Deal South - were shut out from even the most modest opportunity that whites enjoyed for wealth accumulation and survival assistance in economic downturns.
In this example, blacks were not explicitly excluded, but the proxy phrase 'agricultural and domestic workers' did the job effectively. Nor was this anomalous: African Americanswere excluded implicitly or through administrative fiat from all major NewDeal welfare programs, including the National Labor Relations Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the National Industrial Recovery Act, and the Agricultural Adjustment Act. This exclusion of African Americans from the opportunities offered by New Deal programs originated in traditional racism: the determination of powerful southern Democrats in the Senate to preserve the racial order of the Jim Crow South. But once set in motion, the structure of exclusion and discrimination operated automatically. Coupled with other examples of mid-century discrimination, such as overtly racist Federal Housing Administration mandates for segregation, New Deal policies stunted black wealth accumulation at the same time that they createda cornucopia of opportunity for whites. Though the nation moved slowly away from Jim Crow, the structure endured, as powerful as ever, even if no longer deliberately racist. The most effective agent perpetuating that structure has been the Supreme Court's refusal to recognize it.
Structural racism may be familiar to some lawyers by its other name, institutional racism, thanks largely to Ian Haney L6pez's path breaking exploration of the problem in 2000. Haney-Lopez described the "unexamined social practices or patterns [that] at once structure and give meaning to human interaction," analyzing the practices of California Superior Court judges in selecting grand jurors, which resulted in a near-total exclusionof Chicanos. He found that the "unconsidered repetition of cognitively familiar routines," the "routinized sequences of behavior," structured social institutions (here, grand jury proceedings). Haney-Lopez examined "racial institutions," those "understanding of race ... within a community"that enable individuals to understand and explain reality. These beliefs in turn reinforce a racial hierarchy of status resulting in "social domination" by a superordinate group (Anglos) over a subordinated group (Chicanos).
Eight characteristics distinguish structural racism from 'its traditional Jim Crow predecessor:
- Structural racism is to be found in racially-disparate outcomes, not invidious intent.
- Structural racism ascribes race as a basis of social organization to groups through a process of "racialization."
- " White advantage is just as important an outcome as black subordination, if not more so.
- Structural racism is invisible and operates behind the illusion of colorblindness and neutrality.
- Structural racism is sustained by a model of society that recognizesonly the individual, not the social group, as a victim of racial injustice. This individualist outlook refuses to acknowledge collective harm, group responsibility, or a right to collective redress.
- The effects of structural racism are interconnected across multiple social domains (housing, education, medical care, nutrition, etc.).
- Structural racism is dynamic and cumulative. It replicates itself over time and adapts seamlessly to changing social conditions.
- Structural racism operates automatically and thus is perpetuatedsimply by doing nothing about it.
Let us briefly examine each of these in turn.
1. Outcome vs. Intent.-Structural racism is manifested in disparate out-comes between racial groups, not the intent of an alleged discriminator..."