vielsiehorsepower wrote:Harry0569 wrote:The fact that some of you folks believe that institutional racism is not real is mind boggling to me.
I guess that's what happens when all you listen to / watch is Rush, Breitbart, Hannity and the like.
Again, cite one law policy or public official or politician that gives people of color a disadvantage. You people wanna talk about instituional racism but you can point to no one and nothing because it's Not there. That's what the 60s was for
I think every SMU fan understands the death penalty setback SMU football and SMU. We feel the effects of the death penalty today--that was almost 30 years ago.
So why can't you understand how institutional racism works and the way it has set back some minority groups in the United States? Because you just don't want to. Minorities in this country had to fight to get the 1964 (right to vote) and 1968 Civil Rights Act (fair housing), even after getting the 14th and 15th Amendment in 1866. So African-Americans were supposed to be citizens with the constitutional amendments but nothing really changed for them. Do you really think everything just changed after the Civil Rights Acts? The courts are still fighting for desegregation of public schools in certain parts of the country and you think everything is just equal? The first African-American wasn't in Highland Park until the 1990s due to redlining.
I'm sure you understand compound Interest. If some minorities weren't even full citizens until after the civil rights acts, and if they are still fighting for basic rights, don't you think other social groups are still afforded benefits due to them being able to have accumulated wealth and social status long before that?
I will cite another policy, the War on Drugs was not a race neutral law. What we find years later is that war on drugs produced unequal outcomes across racial groups. "Although rates of drug use and selling are comparable across racial lines, people of color are far more likely to be stopped, searched, arrested, prosecuted, convicted and incarcerated for drug law violations than are whites."
You're the exact person these athletes are protesting. I guess the joke is on me though, you're just a ponyfans troll.