[neilsense]

I'm more than happy with acknowledging racism both when it happens and also understanding the depth of the effect.

I've been hurled racial slurs/insults throughout my life at various points. Sometimes randomly on the street, sometimes as a joke, sometimes when I didn't even catch the meaning of what was said until I had gotten home and it was too late to reply.

Despite that, I cannot subscribe to this thread that somehow people, of any colour, born in the most prosperous country the world has ever seen are somehow disadvantaged compared to those that arrive on its shores.

You may have spoken thousands of hours to people from all walks of life, but you are dangerously wrong with your assertion and it are perpetuating the falsehood that it's always someone else's fault as to why population X (whoever it might be, in whichever Western country) has an issue.

Racism still exists, however it's not the answer to every question.

[andrewmd5]

Your inability to accept reality is not an assertion of truth unto others. People can’t pull themselves up by the bootstraps if they have a boot on their neck.

https://andrew.im/essays/a-journey-to-the-american-dream

[neilsense]

The only boot on the neck of most people in the West is their society that convinces them they will never stand up.