"Not being racist isn't enough in America," according to the author of this essay

by Linette Lopez, June 7, 2020

• For an America that preserves democracy and the rule of law, it is not enough for Americans to simply not be racist. We must be actively anti-racist, and build anti-racist institutions.
• Institutions inform values and behaviors, and America was founded with huge racist institutions that left us with racist values and behaviors we must work to undo. We've known this since the 1790s. Racism is our neutral setting. Only vigorous anti-racist action can change that.
• The national delusion that we've stamped out the worst of racism left us vulnerable to its evils. A vigilantly anti-racist country would not have our problems with policing, and it would not have elected Donald Trump, a white supremacist, as president.
• Rest in peace, George Floyd.
• https://www.businessinsider.com/it-is-not-enough-to-not-be-racist-in-america-you-must-be-anti-racist-2020-6?utm_source=notification&utm_medium=referral
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• This essay goes on much longer. What the author has to say is said at the beginning. The rest is repetitious.
• Nowhere is there any acknowledgement  that during the 1960's racial discrimination was outlawed by civil rights legislation, and beginning with the War on Poverty in 1964 several trillion dollars has been spent in anti poverty programs designed specifically to help blacks. Beginning with the 1970's affirmative action policies have caused blacks to be discriminated in favor of.
• Despite all that has been done to help blacks they still tend to score poorly on all the mental aptitude tests, however they are designed. 
• http://www.blackexcel.org/06-sat-act-scores-by-race-ethnicity.htm 
• http://www.harbornet.com/folks/theedrich/JP_Rushton/Race.htm
• Blacks still have a crime rate that is seven to eight times the white rate.
•  https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf
• http://2kpcwh2r7phz1nq4jj237m22.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/2005-Color-of-Crime-Report.pdf
• They have an illegitimacy rate that is over twice the white rate. 
• https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/77-black-births-to-single-moms-49-for-hispanic-immigrants   
• Since 1964, when the Civil Rights Act and the War on Poverty was begun black rates of crime and illegitimacy have risen. Black academic performance has improved little, despite expensive government spending programs like Head Start and No Child Left Behind.
• It was not supposed to be this way. An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy was published in 1944. It was written by Gunnar Myrdal, a Swedish economist, who later on won the Nobel Prize in Economics. In this book Dr. Myrdal acknowledged that blacks tend to perform less well than whites by objective criteria of intelligence, and that they have higher rates of crime and illegitimacy. He argued that these characteristics are the result of racial discrimination, and that if the discrimination ends, blacks will begin to perform and behave as well as whites.
• After the Second World War millions of whites were receptive to Dr. Myrdal's message who might not have been earlier. The revelations of the Holocaust made most whites want to believe that racial differences did not matter, or that they did not exist at all. Blacks had participated loyally in the war effort. Many whites could not understand why a black, battle scared combat veteran of the Second World War could not dine in a restaurant that served men who had not been in combat.
• Unfortunately, these predictions have not come true. Because liberals cannot point to improvements in black performance and behavior after all that has been done to "fight racism," they have made it dangerous to draw attention to what has happened.