03-19-2024, 08:23 PM
(03-19-2024, 08:16 PM)Dill Wrote: Just a historical note:
I trace it back to the Kerner Commission of 1967, the guys tasked by LBJ to explain what caused 150 plus riots in cities
that year, especially Detroit, where some 33 people were killed. LBJ expected a Black Power conspiracy of some sort,
but the Commission found white racism to be the cause, embodied in control of the city's power structure and police,
so it went beyond just individuals with different opinions, but fell far short of some BP led conspiracy.
Blacks were responding spontaneously to race-based political and economic limitations. To fix that, the limitations
had to be addressed. Johnson rejected the findings, though.
https://policing.umhistorylabs.lsa.umich.edu/s/detroitunderfire/page/kerner-commission
I'm not saying systemic racism doesn't exist. It very much does. I'm just saying the people who took the definition of "racism + power = oppression/systemic racism" and changed it to "prejudice + power = racism" did nothing to help the cause and only created a knee jerk defensive reaction in white people by telling them that "you can't be racist to a white person, only prejudice" when everyone knows the colloquial definition of racism is, "that person did something or said something to me based on my race and their hatred of me for that reason. "
