systemically entrenched racism in this country
You know what's really systematic and racist? Affirmative action.
No, not because it's racist against "white people", it's racist because it lets us believe minorities are somehow more stupid or incapable of getting into college or university, or jobs on their merits alone. They are so bad they need a handicap.
That's what racist. I would be enraged if I wasn't being respected enough to compete on my own merits, but being given handicaps for my skin colour. I'd be furious.
social justice
Social justice is not any justice, it is a mob rule.
institutional racism still exists here.
So there is a law that says people of different skin colours have to be treated differently?
If you think this woman reporting on KKK infiltration of our police forces is racist
No, I think the woman is a racist ideologue. Her idea of KKK infiltrating anything is not the issue, it is that her mind is so inbued with the idea that "everything is racist" she doesn't see her own racism. The slavery was ended, racial discrimination has been made illegal, and racism is being frowned upon by the sheer majority of people. You'd be hard pressed to find a real Nazi anywhere, just because how bad name they made for themselves in the WW2.
The media from pretty much everywhere from left to right condemns racism, and so do literally every workplace in the first world.
Racism is in so bad wrap today that you'd be hard pressed to find a real racist anywhere, and those you find on the Internet are mostly trolls, you can't believe a word they say. And even they are hardly racists, really. Just some shitlords laughing at your frustration with them.
fail to see racism in Trump's comments about Mexicans, you are totally lost.
I wonder where you get this utter bullshit that Trump has anything to do with KKK or any racist organizations, or even that what he said in the quote you dug up was somehow racist.
Are you familiar with the concept of trans-generational trauma?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenerational_trauma
We're not talking about ancient history here. The Jim Crow years were less than 100 years ago. The last reported lynching was in 1979. I am an eighth Cherokee, and a quarter Irish. My parents were dirt poor. There were times we didn't have electricity or running water. I experienced adversity so ugly I still have nightmares, and I still don't have it as bad as someone whose great grandparents were slaves. If someone gave me a scholarship because I was descended from people that had been conquered and enslaved, I wouldn't feel insulted at all. I would take it with a smile on my face, and I would feel good that some attempt had been made to make right something that had gone wrong.
I grew up in a small town in Idaho. There was only one black family there, and they lived there for less than a year before they moved away. When I was 14 I was up early one morning on my paper route, and I saw KKK members conducting a ceremony in full regalia. How can you sit there and say I would be "hard pressed to find a real racist anywhere" after I just posted a thousand stories about racist cops?
funny that that the only other post l look at of yours is the same thing...
paying for college because of past injustice is one thing. I totally agree that giving blacks free college would be a perfect enough form of reparations, but thats not what affirmative action is. Affirmative action artificially inflates education/skill level