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US judge in Texas rules minority business agency must serve all races
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I'm a Chinese outside China. Believe me when I say I know very well what systemic racism is. I do not however believe the best way to combat it is by encouraging more discrimination, whoever it is against.
I believe you may think you know what it is, but I don't think you do. Systemic racism is subtle. We likely don't even recognize a good chunk of it yet. Even if we did, a system that assumes equality of opportunity literally systemically perpetuates the effects of racism.
If a scale has $60 on one side and $100 on the other, you will literally never restore the balance by adding money equally on both sides. The best you can do is obscure the imbalance by adding so much money that the scales start to look balanced from a distance.
Now the value of the money means nothing compared to assets (property, denied to minorities historically through policies like redlining), which will hold their value through inflation. Guess who has all the assets? The side that started with $100... so even that doesn't work.
Ultimately, there is no way to restore the balance without the $100 side's feelings getting hurt before because they aren't getting as much. It's not like white folks are being told to move out of their home so a black family can move in. Speaking as a white dude, we can stand to suck it up for a bit.
Systemic racism can be subtle. The Chinese version is blatant. I'm absolutely certain that the previous poster knows quite well what blatant state supported systemic racism looks like, they grew up in such a system. I don't know if that would help or hinder their ability to identify such structures in the subtle ways that the US does it.
Seeing as "white" isn't a race, there is a fundamental problem with your argument.