Time to END racism

[JasonBlack]

Quote:3)One little stat: black children of African-American GI's and white German mothers out of wedlock are indistinguishable in IQ from white Germans. Maybe this reflects the German education which is no lark but is the only reliable entry to the Good Life in Germany.

that was the other statistic I was looking for. thank you

Quote:Trump claimed that he did more in four years for black people than in the four years of any other prior President (which is itself specious because he established no policies promoting such) but forgets to tell us that black people did much of that themselves, like commuting from black communities with few jobs to white communities where jobs go begging)

Giving credit where credit is due is important, I'm not debating that, but it's hardly suspicious that a policy not specifically designed for a certain race may in fact do a lot to help them anyway. the policy you're looking for is Opportunity Zones, in which businesses are offered tax breaks for opening up shop in inner city areas that are struggling with employment.

As a whole, most people don't have trouble acknowledging that racism exists. What gets them is
1) a tendency toward guilty-until-proven-innocent type thinking
2) a "sins of the father" approach to dealing with things
3) specific attributions to racism that make zero sense (ex: Star Wars and Dungeons and Dragons....what?)
4) attempts to cancel any kind of historical work that doesn't fit modern sensibilities of ethics
5) focus on symbolic gestures (ex: taking down statues, putting more black people on bills) at the expense of more tangible courses of action. personally, I don't have super strong opinions on either, I'm mostly saying that it's not the best place to be focusing our attention on.
6) relying on threats, accusations, getting people fired, etc and then wondering why their goal of "spreading tolerance and love" isn't going well.

I could go on. I'm not necessarily accusing you of any of this, but I think one needs to be cognizant of when worthwhile ideas aren't being implemented in practice in a manner that serves their ends effectively.