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Systemic racism in the USA: Are whites "guiltier" if they had slavery in their past?
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<blockquote data-quote="RDKirk" data-source="post: 77568113" data-attributes="member: 326155"><p>There has been a rhetorical flim-flam in the replacement of "structural racism" for "systemic racism." We got everyone on board with dismantling structural racism--done through repeal and reversal of laws and policies that had codified racism.</p><p></p><p>It has to be admitted, however, that there are still racists in the system, hence, the coining of "systemic racism." But they are not the same, and the methods for dealing with racists in the system cannot be the same as dealing with racism that is the structure of the system. </p><p></p><p>Every way you look at the situation, <strong><em>the fix is in place</em></strong>. Whether we like the direction or not, by the time my daughter is my age, Caucasians won't be the dominant demographic in much of the nation, and the social privileges that accord naturally to the dominant demographic won't be theirs anymore. I'm not sure what it will look like, but the changes are already taking place.</p><p></p><p>Black people are whining (yes, I said whining) about having to code-switch in corporate America and speak standard English. What are they going to do in the future when code-switching in many places will be speaking Spanish? There will never be a time that code-switching of some kind won't be necessary.</p><p></p><p>And that is not a problem. We are human beings. Any normally intelligent human being should be able to function in multiple different social settings.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDKirk, post: 77568113, member: 326155"] There has been a rhetorical flim-flam in the replacement of "structural racism" for "systemic racism." We got everyone on board with dismantling structural racism--done through repeal and reversal of laws and policies that had codified racism. It has to be admitted, however, that there are still racists in the system, hence, the coining of "systemic racism." But they are not the same, and the methods for dealing with racists in the system cannot be the same as dealing with racism that is the structure of the system. Every way you look at the situation, [B][I]the fix is in place[/I][/B]. Whether we like the direction or not, by the time my daughter is my age, Caucasians won't be the dominant demographic in much of the nation, and the social privileges that accord naturally to the dominant demographic won't be theirs anymore. I'm not sure what it will look like, but the changes are already taking place. Black people are whining (yes, I said whining) about having to code-switch in corporate America and speak standard English. What are they going to do in the future when code-switching in many places will be speaking Spanish? There will never be a time that code-switching of some kind won't be necessary. And that is not a problem. We are human beings. Any normally intelligent human being should be able to function in multiple different social settings. [/QUOTE]
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