What is ‘Systemic Racism,’ Really?

[mystery-ak]

What is ‘Systemic Racism,’ Really?

Feels like another power grab designed to humiliate white middle and working class 'deplorables' already hunkered down and defensive.

June 8, 2020|

12:01 am
Robert Merry

Sometimes big political developments arrive in the country like Sandburg’s fog, on little cat feet, silent and unnoticed until they envelop the nation. The emergence of Donald Trump four years ago is an example. Though a loud and clamorous candidate, he seemed to many like a kind of political clown destined for defeat. Establishment politicians believed almost to a person that the “blue wall” of Democratic electoral dominance would hold against this guy. The Midwest would stay solid, and Hillary Clinton would win the presidency.

But a silent fog was moving in. It was a growing sense among middle-class voters in heartland America that something was seriously wrong with the country, that the nation’s leaders were transforming America in bad ways and unraveling their future in the process. But there was no street protest or fiery rhetoric, no coalescence of civic activism or public demands. Certainly the mainstream media, so aligned with the country’s elites, didn’t detect anything of consequence bubbling up from within the polity. Why would they? Everything seemed fine to them.

Meanwhile, the disaffected merely bided their time, silently waiting for their opportunity to express themselves in the quiet sanctity of the voting booth. After they did, Donald Trump was the next president. Hardly anyone saw it coming.

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[txradioguy]

Systemic racism and white guilt...two mythical boogeymen pushed and proliferated by Liberals in the name of "social justice".

[jafo2010]

Systemic racism does not exist.  In fact, in my 66 years of living, I have never witnessed a racist act, except by blacks.  I have seen plenty of racism from black directed at innocent white.  In the 60s, they dragged whites from their cars and beat them to death in Pittsburgh, my hometown at the time.

Today, black on white violent crime is 10:1.  As long as the numbers are like that, any white person would be a fool to not have eyes in the back of their head.  Want to be safe, be prepared for the worst.  Expect it.  It is a dangerous world, and blacks want to eliminate the police.  It is not a mystery what will happen when they reduce policing in their communities.

[dfwgator]

Opposition to socialism.