If it is racism now, then it was racism half a century ago as well. Like many people through the centuries, you've got your reasons. Racism is fine with you.
Of course, whether AA is racist depends on how it is actually implemented. There is no logical reason to think AA is necessarily racist.
"Outreach" means very little these days. AA is racist, period.
And nobody's denying there was a lot of racism half a century ago--you're attacking a strawman.
The problem is that there is still significant racism, even in some pretty liberal states, such as where I live. I've heard substitute teachers refer to a child who was Native American as a dirty Indian; I've heard disgusting language directed towards Asian immigrant children and their families amongst families of a youth soccer game, FFS. I've heard well educated, intelligent and even thoughtful people say some pretty awful things about Somali immigrants---and some pretty terrible things about African Americans who were probably descended from enslaved people--in my workplace. One woman quit because of the racism she faced. I thought she was being over sensitive or exaggerating--until I heard what her co-worker had to say about her. The racist co-worker? She definitely doesn't see herself as racist and she's really good at her job. I actually like her--but my esteem definitely dropped. In my town, as long as I've lived here, whenever there were black people who moved to the community, the immediate assumption was that they were gang bangers from Chicago. My daughter's friend's mother is Korean and the daughter heard a lot of very, very ugly racist stuff at the high school--and administration just shrugged--which is exactly what they did when the same group of people targeted some of the nerdier kids (one of mine among them) for some nasty stuff. In that case, the administration was 'afraid' that the nerds would retaliate by going Columbine and assumed that would be the problem. In the meantime, absolutely nothing was done about the nasty bullies who targeted minorities and nerds. And of course, girls were/are always fair game. I wish it were different than when I was in school decades ago but the only difference is that there are actually persons of color in this community, unlike the one where I spent most of my school years.
It's not just at high schools or grade schools but in every employment situation, in law enforcement, at universities. Again, I live in a fairly liberal state with a higher than average level of education and higher than average per capita income, high home ownership--amongst every group except black people. Oh, and there's some pretty nasty stuff always directed towards Native Americans. A couple of my friends are NA women, married to white men, who spent most of their lives downplaying their heritage--something that has only recently changed as hey openly acknowledge their heritage and have applied for/been given tribal membership. Most of my friends are well educated people, many who hold advanced degrees and teach at the university. Those who are not white have not been immune to racism nor have their kids, born and raised here. Disgusting doesn't half touch it.
I find it exhausting and I'm about as white bread all American mid-western as they come. I never have had to worry about being stopped by the police. Indeed, I look so girl next door/mom or grandma next door that I don't even get tickets. Every parent worries about their kids but I've never had to worry that mine would be shot by the police because the police 'thought they saw something.' I can only begin to imagine if I were actually a minority.
I really wish racism were finished 50 years ago.
It's not.
