I have been writing on the subject of racism in the West (not just America) since I arrived in Canada 16 years ago. My conclusion was that if the "White" America does not acknowledge the issue of systemic racism, every other effort will fail to exterminate this cankerworm. There is a need for "White America" to acknowledge we are wrong, we have been wrong and we have not done enough to stop this evil culture of racism, then, the healing and equalization will begin.
Before now, many caucasians have lived in denial of systemic racism and many of them have acted in racist ways unconsciously because this has been a culture they have known - like a lady in New York who called the police on an American African man in the park because he told her to put her dog on a leash, and she was faking a cry on the phone as she was calling 911. When she was interviewed, the first statement she made was that "I am not a racist" but the video of the interaction showed otherwise and she lost her plum job for it.
Many racist people are quick to point to the fact that they have minorities as friends when it appears they are tending toward their usual racist tone - what they don't tell you is that how they treat and view these people, as their equal or lesser or inferior race? The man at the Top is a classic example - Ben Carson is his friend, so he is not a racist, right?
Another sign of a racist is that they are quick to dismiss systemic racism shown in the society and call it one-off thing, and say end of story.
Another sign is that they blame the victim or complain that people are over-reacting when there is an obvious culture of racism and cover-up (police or individual who committed the crime are either set free or given light sentence) A culmination of this is what boiled over to anger - fresh in people's mind is dastard act committed against the likes of George Floyd, Trayvon Martins, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray and a host of others recently.
Anyone who is familiar with this country's history would know that African Americans were enslaved for over 250 years from 1619 - during this period, they were abused, gang-raped, made to work 18 h a day, 7 days a week without any form of wages. They were made to sleep with their mothers (that is where the term "motherfucker" came from), sisters, auntie and family to breed more slaves for their slave masters, they were denied education so they will not be able to read and be inspired to want freedom, they were properties. The constitution legalized that they were lesser of being (they were worth “three-fifths of a person” - their life was less compared to that of their fellow European- American settlers), they were sold at will and hung for disobedience or rebellion. After emancipation, the evil did not end completely, they were segregated up until the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s - you still find a remnant of that today. They were denied voting right until the civil-right movement of 1960s. There was a brief period after the abolition of slavery that African Americans prospered, but the Jim Crow era of the late 1800s and early 1900s tried furiously to keep them under - the KKK and the Jim Crow laws were the antitheses to the effort to eradicate slave ownership and racism. Legislation were passed to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by blacks during the Reconstruction period - some Church in the South sided with the segregationist that led to some southern church forming their own conventions - some of this church leadership just apologized a few years ago for the evil they did during this era.
African Americans did not have the right to vote until over fifty years ago, their children could not go to the same school or sit in front of a Bus until a few decades ago, or that they are dis-proportionally discriminated against by the law enforcement and the criminal justice system - case in point is how crack epidemic (African American thing, so many were hauled into prison for possession of few grams) was dealt with and how they are dealing with opioid addiction (mostly caucasian thing in the Appalachia - billions is been spent to rehabilitate). Today, in most US cities, you can easily determine demographics, where most African Americans live against their caucasian counterparts - they are the poorest neighborhood with poor real estate value, poor school ratings and highly policed, the school system is quick to label their children, they are imprisoned for a crime their caucasian counterpart gets suspended sentence for in the name of "affluenza" (too much privilege).
Mt 22:37-40 - ....love thy neighbor as thyself...., Jesus said this is the whole essence of who God is and what Christianity is all about. Loving others as yourself mean - do not feel you are superior to anyone so much that you ill treat them. This commandment put a nail in the theory of superiority been perpetuated by White Supremacist in America - before heaven we are equal, why claim superiority here on earth and let it fuel hate in you so much you built a culture that has discriminated against one ethnic group for over 400 years.
Do not misunderstand me, there are many caucasian Americans who are not racist and are ashamed of what is happening. You only need to look at the images of protesters currently, they of different hue and color. However, the majority of privileged caucasian are in denial even with the video capture of what happened to George Floyd, they ignored the past evidence before this and are calling this one-off, no it is not, it is a systemic thing. This is the problem - a lack of acknowledgment of this evil culture by those who have the power to change things. Until they acknowledge, nothing will change, and I think this is the fight African Americans need to fight, get them to acknowledge these evil acts that have been perpetuated by their ancestors even till today, and then we can begin the true equalization process.
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