There are still problems, but that doesn't mean that white racism against black people is still a chief problem.
For one, racism has greatly diminished over the last few decades.
Secondly, racism is not a one way street, no matter how much race activists insist that "black people can't be racist". When white county employees are passed over for promotion in majority black counties like DeKalb or Fulton or when the new racist Clayton County sheriff fires all white deputies, that's as surely racism as the reverse.
I don't think so. I acknowledge the problems, but I think the chief cause is misguided racial politics of the last 40 years.
- Racial preferences - very unjust on an individual level, and they breed skepticism of merit possessed by people helped by "affirmative action" policies. Kind of how people are justly suspicious of the owner's nephew being hired, but writ large. '
- another issue here is hiring black people just to "teach" racial grievances and attack white people under the guise of so-called "critical race theory".
- Double standards on racism. Every single "microaggression" by whites against blacks gets played up like it was really significant transgression, while overt racism by black people against whites (like calling white people "cavemen" or "refrigerators") gets a pass. It culminates in the "academic" claim that only white people can be racist.
- special case of that are interracial homicides. Twice as many black people kill white people that the reverse, but the media love to play up the latter and downplay the former to the extent that
- Glorification of black violent crime. It started with the liberal set, especially in academia embracing Black Panthers, Black Liberation Army, Nation of Islam etc and continued later into Gangsta Rap. It is notable that the infamous gangsta rapper 2pac had multiple family connections to the murderous black radicals (one could even call them racial terrorists) of the 70s.
Here is for example official account of the "Women's March" wishing happy birthday to a race terrorists and murderer (she murdered a police officer in 1973). Truly deplorable!
All this breeds resentment between the races. We should work to correct this nonsense, but instead we are accelerating ever more in the wrong direction.
You also make yourself part of the problem instead of part of the solution.
I don't think so. I think the activists like those of the "Black Lives Matter" are the part of the problem. You can see the "glorification of black violent crime" I referenced above.
Btw, I have no interest in a protracted discussion with you regarding the clear demonstrations I referred to above, because (a) we’ve done it already, probably more than once, and (b) you’ve never shown the slightest inclination to take it on board. As such, you can just keep your denialism. The only person you’re fooling is yourself and other denialists.
Nonsense. I have never shied away from a discussion.
You also ignore that the sort of colour blind policies you advocate for had quite severe drawbacks in the past, and that this is partly the reason so many progressives lost faith in them.
When have they been really tried?
The non-color blind (aka racist) policies that have dominated the race politics of the US for the last 50 years are what got us into this mess.
Chief among the problems were that the policies were essentially used to conveniently sweep ongoing issues under the carpet, and when you say the issues are only from long ago, you are doing exactly the same thing, and so your advocating the same policies rings very hollow.
I do not think they have ever been tried. Ever since late 60s, late 70s we have had "race conscious" policies. And look at what they have wrought!