Does racism exist in America, yes of course it does. More on the black side than white, that isn't even realistically debatable. Anybody who doesn't think there are more racist that are black than white is a fool.
So exactly how can black folks, who have no real power in business and very little in government, practice "racism". Racism is a political system of one race getting preferences over another. Blacks really don't have the political power to do that.
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Here is the order of stumbling blocks that blacks have to get over, in order of most affected:
1) Self inflicted, both culturally and individual choices.
which choices are those? Because I'm willing to bet you are going to spew a whole litany of what you think "those people are like".
Fact is, most black folks have jobs and families. Just like white people. And they dont' like it when the cops shoot their children for no good reason. Again- just like white people.
2) Getting over the CRUSHING results of 30 years of liberal social policies that packed blacks like sardines in public housing far away from employment, and built generations of dependent poverty.
Okay, let's look at THIS lie. Here's a chart of the poverty rates amongst the races.
In 1959, when those "liberal policies" you bemoan started (50 years ago, not 30. 30 years ago Ronnie Raygun was President.) The black poverty rate was nearly 60%. By the time LBJ left office it dropped to a little over 30%. Then it creeped up again under Nixon and Raygun. But when Bill Clinton became President, it dropped to almost 20%. Then along came your boy Dubya and it started getting worse again.
But, no, no, it was the liberals you see.
3) PERCEIVED racism. The automatic belief that the bad things that happen to them are the result of systematic racism that simply doesn't exist. But they are constantly told that does by parasitic race baiters and white guilt liberals.
4) Actual racism.
let's look at these last two. Perception is an important thing.
Now, I've cited the study that shows that resumes that have black names get 50% less callbacks than ones with white names... but I think the real problem is that a lot of white managers and supervisors who don't consider themselves racist actually do engage in a subtle form of it. They are more likely to sympathize with people who remind them of them.
I'll give you a great example. In 2012, we had 3 people leave our department. Even though the last two (white) people to leave got goodbye lunches the General Manager attended, when two of the three people who left had their goodbye lunches, he was "too busy".
The three people who left.
A middle aged Asian woman who had been with the company for 9 years.
A thirty-ish black woman who had been with the company for 2 years.
A young college intern who had been with the company for 3 months over the summer.
Hey, do you want to guess which one of these three people merited the "Great man's" time?[/QUOTE]