What is "Systemic Racism?"

Lets simply break it down,
SYSTEMIC, adjective

1. relating to a system, especially as opposed to a particular part.
"the disease is localized rather than systemic.
2. relating to, or common to a system

Those that use the term (if they are ‘thinking’ folk) might use it to indicate it is something that pervades the whole culture, other words relating would include pervasive, system-wide, comprehensive, structural...
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RACISM, noun
Many different definitions but the simple one that seems to apply to the “woke” generation is a prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a particular minority people on the basis of their racial group.

Some cultures are more accepting of the various racial groups in their midst than others but I believe racism is systemic within humankind.

In the 1800 and 1900’s with the onslaught of mass immigration Americans accepted a great variety of people’s. Yet there was prejudice against the poor Irish immigrates. Some even arrived as indentured servants.

Rob

 

System Racism means that certain systems within a societal framework are set up in such a way for a certain ethnicity to prosper and for others to stay below status quo, economically, educationally, judicially, etc. Also, there are abuses in the system that demonstrate racial inequality.

For instance, let's say there are two people who kill a cop in Alabama. One is a Caucasian the other is African-American. All of the details are the same yet the white man gets 20 years in prison and the black man gets a life sentence. This would be an example of systemic racism.

 

That is where the definition of racism becomes important.
You would define racism broadly as a prejudice against any group based upon color;

Others might define it as affecting a particular minority group.

(no judgement implied)

Rob

 

For it to be anything like systemic racism, you must have a large multiplicity along with consistency. Several men of different races, each with the same criminal record, found guilty of the same crime under different judges each meting out the same disparate sentences based on race alone.

 

From the various diversity and inclusion webinars I've watched lately, "systemic racism" seems to include any system which does not result in "equity" among all racial or ethnic groups. Equity, in this sense, could be described as equality of outcome, not equality of opportunity or equal treatment under the law. I've seen the image below in many places to illustrate the difference. If the system does not result in equity among all races, it must be a "racist" system.

 

This is the version of that same idea which I believe is the biblical answer: remove the barriers entirely!

 

Who built the barriers? And who tears them down?

peace to you

 

LOL. That’s the sort of backhanded meming I so love to see. Depict people trying to watch a game without paying. They could even be construed as illegals. And then to take down the wall so there is no homerun fence? Priceless. Looks like a “Build that wall!” scenario. Genius.

 

It is clear to me that at a point in history not very far back that whites were particularly harsh towards the blacks that survived slavery and segregation. This group of blacks did suffer as second hand citizens. What is systemic?

Whites lost the bid to deal with the problem of the black American community to the white leftists who in turn by accident completely decimated the black nuclear family. The white leftist simply applied his anti God formula towards the weakest group of their day, post segregation blacks. At the same time, the non racist whites turned a blind eye on their cousins who sold the welfare utopia to these black folks. As a result black urban communities began their steady decline into what are now poverty ridden death camps.

Because this was permitted to take place, naturally blacks would receive harsher sentences for crimes committed than whites would in each of their respective neighborhoods. This judicial prejudice is yet again, a half assed attempt at dealing with the black Americans. Whether throwing money at the problem or judging more harshly, both did not do what was needed and is still needed, to save black America from black Americans.

It will never be fixed.

 

Yes, exactly! Thomas Sowell's definitions in Discrimination and Disparities argue that point perfectly.

For the most part, activists argue that the socioeconomic disadvantages are caused by a system built upon a foundation of racism (see the 1619 project), therefore these systems which resulted in disproportionate poverty, crime, etc. among minorities must be torn down and replaced by a Marxist construct. That's why none of the riots, protests, or vandalism are really about racial symbolism per se. They're about removing any "icon" of the current system, including Frederick Douglass and Lincoln!

 

Systemic racism would prevent

Equal education there would be no black Harvard grads

Systemically deny rights

Prevent blacks from owning property

Becoming millionaires

Becoming business owners

Owning sports franchises

Becoming billionaires

Having interracial relationships

Prevent intergrated worship

Legislate travel for blacks

Have curfews for blacks

Prevent black authorship

Prevent blacks from teaching in any forum

Prevent blacks from pastoring


Thats just immediate thought!

Any others?

Please add

Remind me again, what is systemic?

 

Systemic racism is when a team named the "Redskins", a name based solely on skin color, can keep their name for decades despite a public outcry and public demonstrations wherever the team went.

 

Systemic racism is when only 1% of the Fortune 500 CEOs are black despite the overall black population being about 14%.

 

See this is what liberals do. They take two unrelated stats and pretend that combined they show causation.