| I'm not confused. Also, I object to your 'sophomoric' view that racism is 'well defined' by the fact that 1.1% of the African American population is in prison etc.. The more likely reason is that African Americans commit significantly more crime, which is consistently validated by the somewhat more objective victimization surveys which correlate quite well with rates of incarceration. We can then get into structural arguments about inequity which 'cause' said crime, but those points also have to stand up against the fact that other marginalized people (i.e. non African American PoC) are considerably less likely to commit crime, and that although poverty does correlate with crime, it's only a soft correlation, whereas the African American composition of a neighbourhood, unfortunately, has almost an absolute correlation with high crime. That said, racism does exist, but the 'pathetic whinging' of those who somehow think that the term 'Master' really has anything to do with it, is ironically killing real hope for progress by discrediting their own Social Justice movements as virtue signalling pedantry. How about we let Barack Obama, first African American President define what is 'racist'. We'll see some reforms in the Justice System - some of it more controversial than others, but we definitely won't be worried about the term 'Master Bedroom' or 'Master Branch', thankfully. |