SYSTEMIC RACISM IN AMERICA

PROTESTERS IN HARLEM 30 MAY 2020

YES...  we have systemic racism in this country (the United States of America) but it did not start with President Trump being elected in 2016...   it started many years ago...  before WWII and before WWI and before the 1900's...  long before any of us were ever born or conceived in the eyes of our parents before they were married.

AND...  guess what???

BOTH THE DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS TOGETHER, IN COLLABORATION, HAVE ALLOWED IT TO CONTINUE... 

Racism in America is both institutional and structural (see below)...


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Nationwide protests in recent weeks have rekindled a roaring public discourse about racial inequality in America.

George Floyd's death in police custody on May 25 let loose a groundswell of public rage about the way Black Americans are policed. But it also sparked a deeper conversation about the way they experience all aspects of modern life, whether it's underrepresentation in college attainment rates, or over-representation in COVID-19 hospitalizations.

Extensive academic research and data collected by the federal government and researchers has documented numerous ways that Black Americans experience life in the United States differently from their white counterparts.

It's called "systemic" racism because it's ingrained in nearly every way people move through society in the policies and practices at institutions like banks, schools, companies, government agencies, and law enforcement.

Systemic Racism includes the policies and practices entrenched in established institutions, which result in the exclusion or promotion of designated groups. It differs from overt discrimination in that no individual intent is necessary. (Toronto Mayor's Committee on Community and Race Relations. Race Relations: Myths and Facts)

It manifests itself in two ways:

• institutional racism: racial discrimination that derives from individuals carrying out the dictates of others who are prejudiced or of a prejudiced society
• structural racism: inequalities rooted in the system-wide operation of a society that excludes substantial numbers of members of particular groups from significant participation in major social institutions. (Henry & Tator, 2006, p. 352)