It’s a good question. What is ‘Systemic Racism’? Is it legalized racism? You’d be hard pressed to find an example in America of racist laws on the books that are anything but legal dead letters. Is it racism by some sort of system, like a company, some other private institution, a government, or a government unit, such as a police force? Again, you’d be hard pressed to come with an example of any significant institution in American life that overtly pursues racist policies. In fact, many of them have stated or unstated preferences for racial minorities. Sure there are racists whites…and blacks, Latinos, Asians, and every other definable racial group. That may always be the case, but individual racism is not systemic racism. From Robert Merry at americanconservative.com:
Feels like another power grab designed to humiliate white middle and working class ‘deplorables’ already hunkered down and defensive.
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.
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