SCOTUS rules on Travel Ban

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(06-27-2018, 03:20 PM)PhilHos Wrote: Appreciate this post, Matt. But, my take is that most "institutionalized racism" is really wealth disparity dressed up as racism. I acknowledge that historical racism has had a significant effect on said wealth disparity, but I do not believe there is such a thing as "institutionalized racism" except maybe in certain specific institutions (like the criminal justice system, for example).

Ah, but the issue with the criminal justice system contributes to the wealth disparity in a large way. It's all interconnected. Socioeconomic inequality is the biggest issue that is threatening our country right now. You will never hear me say otherwise. The problem is that we need to make sure that when we address those issues we recognize the racial disparities existent in the system as it stands now. The New Deal failed to address these issues and that is why a poor white person is going to be better off than a poor black person in today's society. In the post-New Deal era, when neo-liberals and neo-conservatives have been running rampant with deregulation we have seen the poor become worse off and the middle class erode, but there is still racial disparity in that and it grows as well because of things like the criminal justice system. Black households lose net median wealth at a faster rate than white households because the issues that were started decades ago were never fixed.