Notice, the first thing you do is bring "race" into the conversation assuming I can't understand black people, because I disagree with you. But you don't speak for black people, you speak for yourself and those that agree with you regardless of their skin color as I do.
If you spoke for "black" people, there would not be so many black people who disagree with you. You might benefit from this black woman's observations. Does she not count in your book, if she disagrees with you?
https://soapboxie.com/social-issues/The-Victim-Mentality-of-Black-Americans
While it is silly to suggest that I can "dictate" how you perceive racism, since perception is perception, I can make a case regarding whether your perception is true or not. Perception is not reality.
Isn't it wonderful that we need graduate level law courses to discover vestiges of systemic racism? It says three things about our society.
First, we are interested in eliminating systemic racism or why bother to hold graduate level law classes on the topic. Second, we care so much that we train lawyers on how to identify it and use the legal system to end it. And that we have done such a good job, that we need to go beyond the obvious and look for cases of unintentional racist outcomes, which CRT is designed to identify.
Sadly, rather than using CRT to eliminate vestiges of racism, progressive liberals have embraced twisted into what is called "Applied CRT" and used it as a tool to divide us. That is sad.
I do support eliminating vestiges of systemic racism but searching for and finding vestiges of systemic racism does not suggest our system as a whole remains systemically racist.
As for responsibility, I think those in the past who practiced racism should be responsible for their actions, but the absurdity of blaming people for the actions of others based on their skin color, would be the equivalent of me incarcerating you because a black gang member killed a white person, your skin color does not make you responsible for others of the same skin color. It sounds ludicrous because it is.
Even more ludicrous is when you try to assign blame to people living for the actions of those who died decades and even centuries ago before many white people like my ancestors arrived in this country. Guilt by skin color? Sounds racist...
Attempting to make people "responsible" for the actions of others based on skin color is the ultimate form of racism since projects racism across generations with respect to how individuals lived their lives. The Union soldier who died ending slavery is as guilty in your book as the slaveowner.
Do you really want to be held to the same standard?
Now let's use your logic, a bit more logically. Rather than skin color, let's look at whether we should hold direct descendants of slaveowners responsible for slavery. Do you really think Obama should be held accountable for the actions of his mother's ancestors who were slaveowners. Should black Americans have rejected a man descended from slaveowners through his white mother?
Which is a very different case than the argument that some blacks are descended from slaveowners due to rape and as such bear no responsibility for the actions of slaveowners, if your logic is used, Obama should pay reparations to American blacks by virtue of the acts of his white ancestors... original sin passed through generations.
Yet, it appears over 90% of voting African Americans reject your accountability argument when dealing with a direct descendent of a slaveowner, why should white people feel differently?
As a person who had a successful career, I have mentored people of all races as a way to give back. I benefited from mentoring as I was coming up in my career and so I give back. There are many successful black Americans that would make excellent mentors but not enough. In the absence of enough black mentors, it may be better to have someone invest time in someone's success regardless of their skin color, but sadly you cannot accept such actions as sincere and feel you need to assign the "white Savior" label to their actions. That sentiment if shared by too many people will likely lead to many black children not getting the kind of mentoring, they need to succeed.
I do realize that my children and grandchildren enjoy the privilege of getting mentoring from someone prepared to invest the remainder of his life in their success. That privilege is not based on my skin color, but my relationship to them.
I will repeat my link from above at the bottom. Convince Ms. Grace Marguerite Williams that black children are not being taught they are victims or any of the other black authors who have written on the subject, some of whom are referenced in her article.
Try not to be misogynistic and dismiss her because she is woman that does not agree with you (catch the sarcasm in that statement).
There is racism in America, but because America is not a systemically racist country, those individuals do not dictate one's success.
You might want to look up PayScale's study on racial pay equity. One would expect systemic racism would express itself as a "racial" pay gap and in fact, many uninformed writers point to the "uncontrolled" gross pay gap between whites and blacks. However, as soon as you adjust for factors like education, age, state residency, etc., the racial pay gap collapses to under 1%. If pay does not reflect racism in our society (Asian women earn the most after controlling for nonracial variables), it is hard to say our country is systemically racist. And if we can move beyond "victimhood", we can work together to address the reasons why African Americans from poor communities have a low chance probability of realizing equitable outcomes... with education being the single biggest problem.
https://soapboxie.com/social-issues/The-Victim-Mentality-of-Black-Americans
