SCOTUS rules on Travel Ban

[Belsnickel]

(06-27-2018, 12:09 PM)Beaker Wrote: The concept that there is institutional racism does nothing to create a more equitable society, nor does it in any way afford equal protection. In fact, it does more to increase racial tensions and separation. 

Again, racism is bad. Equal protection is good. But let's strive for them based upon actual incidents and events of racism that we can all use as examples for equality....not some made up monster in the ether.

The concept of institutional racism helps to explain a cause of racial disparities in society and government and allow us to find ways we can craft policies to create a more equitable society. It creates tensions because people get defensive instead of recognizing that there are actual systems at play that are discriminatory and not explicit, and we must work to address those.

Your statements are similar to those in the school of thought that if we just ignore race the problem of racism will go away eventually. Racism isn't only an occurrence in explicit, acute incidents. There is a systemic presence of racial discrimination that exists in our institutions that must be addressed. Racial segregation is stronger in some places right now than it was pre-Brown v. Board of Education. Black defendants are incarcerated at higher rates and for harsher sentences than white defendants for the exact same crimes. These are just two verifiable symptoms of institutionalized racism. They are not the results of explicit racism that takes place in a single event, they are rooted in extant policies that allow for this discrimination to continue into present day as a holdover from a time when it was more acceptable. How else do you explain these phenomena if not for institutionalized racism?