Sorry, I missed that post. Thank you for sharing. The idea of concept change supports my thinking and what I said.
Do you acknowledge that our society is well past the systemic racism of things like slavery, apartheid and segregation?
I am a child of the 80s. Michael Jackson was the king of pop. Prince was the king of sexiness. Mike Tyson was the best boxer. Michael Jordan was the greatest basketball player. Colin Powell was one of my role models. Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington were celebrated actors. In elementary school, we did history projects on Martin Luther King and Harriet Tubman. Under systemic racism, this would not be possible.
Now are there still pockets of stubborn racism remaining? Absolutely. But that is not systemic.
The crack epidemic, OJ trial and Rodney King riots also loomed large as historically significant events of my teenage years.
I’ve also deployed to places where there were brutal civil wars between peoples of the same ethnicity, so perhaps my barometer of systemic racism is a bit different than yours.
I don’t think we can ever erase history or make amends for it. I think we’ve made progress. I think the left gravitates towards hysterics at times, which doesn’t help the conversation.