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An illegal practice that used to be evidence of systemic racism in the United States. Used to be.
The presence of racist people in the South (and, well, everywhere to be frank) does not mean America is systemically racisjhh jobj
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I don’t fully buy the redlining.Speaking as someone who despises many aspects of the woke movement (e.g. the never ending quest for purity, and never saying anything offensive ever), I do think there is some evidence of systemic racism.
...but I think the controversy lies in a disagreement over lexicon
Racist: a person who persistently and proudly thinks another race is inferior, and routinely acts on these feelings (i.e. KKK, neo-nazis et al.)
Racist act: An act that is derogatory towards a person based on his/her race... where the aggressor need not be a 'racist' as defined above (e.g. saying something offensive, making a race-based assumption and acting on it)
Systemic racism: Where large institutions are organized in a way that, intentionally or not, penalize those of a particular race... and such a system need not employ racists or even anyone who commit racist acts.
Redlining was clearly a horrible practice that was systemically racist, but also required actual racists committing racist acts. While this is now illegal, the consequences persist in other forms of systemic racism. For example, education is heavily dependent on property values (or income, if attending a private school). Because of redlining, black folks were forced to rent rather than buy decades ago, and thus missed the opportunity to accumulate wealth and property and pass this down to their children, who now live in the same low-income communities, with overcrowded schools and substandard resources. Because of the practice of redlining years ago, many black children are getting a poor education today. That is systemic racism. It doesn't mean that parents in rich neighborhoods, teachers, principals, or anyone involved in education is necessarily racist or has ever done anything racist... it just means that way the education system has a propensity to penalize black children.
In my opinion, part of the problem with the woke movement is that it seeks atonement for systemic racism... when they should really be recruiting people to help them fix broken systems.
Sure it was discriminatory, but many other groups have suffered worse calamaties and loss of property: Holocaust Jews, Vietnamese boat people etc. In general free market will not discriminate if it means loosing money. 1920s Bank or law firm doesn’t like Jews- ones that hire them -Goldman Sachs/Lehman -now will have competitive advantage. I doubt Liberal leading Jewish/catholic banks are going to leave money on the table by not lending to worthy inner city tenants. When there is money to be made, prejudices almost always go out the window.
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