[djtriptych]

Racism happens in people's hearts and minds, not in policy. Fixing racism means fixing hearts and minds.

Calling us "one group" diminishes the value of diversity, which is more or less a fact of nature. We are NOT all the same. Cultural intelligence is a thing.

Anyway the specific problem with your race-blind view is that throughout American history we have employed race-sighted policy at every level of government to ensure peril for certain minorities.

Correcting those efforts is an _active_ process of reaching out to the historically disadvantaged who, it can be proven, continue to feel the negative effects of racist American _policy_.

Is that a more reasonable argument?

[johnathanNYC]

I completely disagree with this, but can you elaborate on racism not being in policy. I think you are confusing systemic racism (in regards to white privilege) with slurs, discrimination, hating someone's skin color, etc.

[djtriptych]

I mean it's possible to have ideally equitable policy and do almost nothing to address the root causes of racism.

[poppysan]

It's also possible to have policy that is intended to stifle, or harm a specific race. I mean Jim Crow laws were less than half a century ago.

It's a shame that we have to debate this in 2015...