I've seen many a righting USMB poster claim, nonsensically, that such-and-such black institution is racist. Showing their ignorance in the process.
The reason why these institutions, organizations and/or business were setup in the first place...is racism.
From the schools to culture, to everything else. Blacks were historically shut-out and/or simply ignored, so there was no choice but to set them up.
HBCUs were created because the institutions of higher learning simply wouldn't accept black students, so HBCUs were created to give black students the opportunity to obtain higher education when virtually no other colleges would.
The Oscars, black talent was simply ignored.
The Grammys, same thing.
The NAACP. founded in 1909, was created to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.
And so on, and so on, and so forth. These institutions, business and/or organizations were setup because of American racism. Racism that still persists today, in various forms.
Only an ignorant fool would fix their face or slam their gums to suggest that these institutions, by default, are racist. It's the height of ignorance and, quite frankly, shows the racism of the person expressing such an asinine view.
"From the schools to culture, to everything else. Blacks were historically shut-out and/or simply ignored, so there was no choice but to set them up."
Since that is no longer the casee,why do we have them now? BLACK CAUCUSES, BLACK ENTERTAINMENT CHANNEL, NAACP, BLACK LIVES MATTER, AFRICAN AMERICAN OFFICE OF EDUCATION, AND THE LIST GOES ON.
RACISM???? YOU BET! but let's be exact, it'ss reverse discrimination, but thasat is fine. It favorss the blacks, right , Asc?
Simple Question ... would you consider this to be racism?
Why do you think the American Chinese Community felt compelled to create their own version of the Miss America pageant back in 1958?
Same reason and to demonstrate the beauty Asain have.
Precisely. When an ethnic community is ostracized from the larger community, they will often create their own facsimile versions of the very institutions from which they were ostracized.
Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, in fact, most ethnic minorities, were, at one time or another, were excluded from participation in the mainstream community.
Creating their own institutions can be a matter of survival, an expression of their willingness to assimilate into the larger culture, an act of defiance against their exclusion from cultural institutions, or ... in most cases ... a combination of all of those things.
Minority institutions don't come into existence as racism, they do so as a reaction to racism.