[throwaway_java]

No.

We emphasise the actions of white men as being more important those of other groups. We write out of history the acts and perspectives and contributions that other groups have made and somehow manage to convince ourselves that we are not biased.

You describe a meritocracy that we aspire to and yet is almost completely detached from reality.

[throwaway_java]

I don't understand the down votes happening here. This is clearly an ingrained facet of Western politics and society.

Why else would minority groups be over represented in prisons and below the poverty line, generally lower educated, generally compensated at a lower level than white male counterparts of the same skill and education level.

Coincidentally because of an inherent superiority of white males? I don't fucking think so.

[michaelbuddy]

>Why else would minority groups be over represented in prisons

I find that interesting. And it's also interesting that certain minorities are overrepresented in prisons outside the United States as well.

> Generally lower educated.

Well the cat is out of the bag that the poor performing minority schools are actually getting more funding per-pupil than majority white schools. So what's the problem, is it because of white males in the U.S. somehow?

> Compensated at a lower level

Do you know how easy it is for an average-skilled black man or woman to get hired in their trade? Do you know that if you're say an electrician's union, you will get placed on vastly more projects than white workers just because of skin color and project demographic scoring? Do you know that once even a private company grows to a certain point they begin getting hounded by the gov't and private groups over their demographics? The structural racism is not only a lie it goes in the opposite direction. Anyone who works in gov't, education or private trades knows this full well.

[throwaway_java]

you seem to be arguing that the necessity for controls to counteract systemic racism are evidence that the racism does not exist. That's a total contradiction.

You're also holding up the trades as the potential high point that black folk can aspire to, which (no disrespect to the trades as they are extremely important) seems more than a little racist itself. Electrician is a great job, but isn't it curious that you didn't mention top level management executive, lawyer, knowledge worker, doctor, engineer...