The words "racist" and "racism" have lost all meaning, and are most often used to slander those that the speaker does not like.
I have a sister who regularly pollutes Facebook with anti-racism memes and asks that right-thinking viewers pass them on or re-post them or whatever it is that one does with this garbage. Since I am both uninterested and technologically incapable I always disappoint.
But here is my point of dissention: We are old white people, living in our suburban enclaves - especially now, when "we" are afraid to go out of the house. If we WANTED TO DISCRIMINATE against people of Black African parentage, there is almost no forum in which we could do it. We can't turn one of them down for a job, refuse them service, overcharge them for something, insult them either wittingly or unwittingly...so what is the value of proclaiming to the world that I am not racist? I lack the opportunity, and who gives a shit anyway?
And getting back to the definition of "racist," it is now a GIVEN that even mentioning a difference between the races is proof of racism - even when that difference is quantitative and verifiable. Can the truth be "racist"? If so, then as I stated above, it is meaningless.
Black people today don't want JUSTICE. Indeed, that is the LAST thing that they want. Justice is the state of affairs that exists when virtue is appropriately rewarded and evil is appropriately sanctioned (punished, if you will). The Black people in prison are there because they have been discovered to have committed felonies, and the People, speaking through their legislatures have defined the penalties for those felonies. But if you look at the actual numbers (victimization surveys vs. NRC), many, many more Black people would be in prison if all of the perpetrators were found and convicted. THAT would be "justice." Nobody wants it, despite what "they" say.
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