Let me also share information from Ben & Jerry's: White families own 90% of national wealth, while Black families own 2.6%, Black students get suspended 3½ times more than white students for the same issue, 67% of doctors have a bias against Black patients.Īdmitting that racism exists in America is the first step to heal a malady that shackles America from reaching the ultimate place of a perfect union.Īnd when you claim otherwise, you are being a hypocrite. Black people were enslaved because they were perceived as less than. Would you believe there’s racism in America if you knew that Black children are exposed to more lead from unsafe drinking water?Īnd how about the research that found in America, “Black newborns die at three times the rate of White newborns, yet when Black newborns are cared for by Black physicians, the mortality penalty they suffer is halved.” Would you believe there’s racism in America if you knew that deaths from all causes are 24% higher in Black than in white communities? If such wrongs don’t make racism real in America, what would? Yet that’s what Derek Chauvin did to George Floyd in Minneapolis. Yet three white men did that to Ahmaud Arbery in Satilla Shores, Georgia.Ī racist is not always someone who is dressed in blue and kills a Black man by a knee on the neck, in daylight, on a crowded street. Yet that’s what a white supremacist did in Charleston, South Carolina.Ī racist is not always someone who stalks a Black jogger, corners the man and shoots and kills him. in Jasper, Texas.Ī racist is not always someone who massacres worshippers inside an African American church. Yet that happened to Emmett Till in Mississippi.Ī racist is not always someone who grabs a Black man, beats him up, urinates on him, chains him behind the truck, drags him across a graveled country road, his limbs fall apart, picks up the pieces and dumps them near a church. Yet racial terror killings took the lives of almost 6,500 Black Americans between 18.Ī racist is not always someone who lies that a 14-year-old made a sexual gesture to a white woman, kidnaps the Black child, tortures, mutilates and discards the disfigured corpse. Saying that racism exists in America doesn't mean labeling all Americans racists.Ī racist is not always someone who picks up a cross, erects it in front of a yard, torches the cross and watches it burn still hiding behind a white hoodie. But data suggest otherwise.įrom the second definition: Would you say racism existed if you knew that the ongoing efforts to suppress voting would continue to leave Black people at a political disadvantage?įrom the third definition: Would you say racism existed if you knew that the American housing system makes it harder to build wealth in communities of color? Tim Scott said America is not a racist country. First: “a belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.” Second: “the systemic oppression of a racial group to the social, economic, and political advantage of another,” and third: “a political or social system founded on racism and designed to execute its principles.”įrom the first definition: Would you say racism existed if you knew that American eugenics created a playbook for controlling the number of those judged to be genetically inferior, such as Blacks and Jews? In your Republican Response to President Biden’s address, you said: “America is not a racist country” and “it’s wrong to try to use our painful past to try to dishonestly shut down debates in the present.”Īs a Black person, why admit the past has been painful if you don’t believe there’s racism in America?įor your information, Merriam Webster provides three definitions of racism. Watch Video: GOP response: Biden and Democrats pulling US apart
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