If you say there is no systemic racism in the United States, you are either being disingenuous or you have been living under a rock. These black people are not making things up. You are lucky to be white in this society.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06...te-people-still-dont-understand-about-racism/
There is systemic racism from whites and blacks in America, because people sin, and some of that includes blaming others for their problems. I read the article you posted, and found it superficial, typical of left wing rhetoric (not surprising) and missing many of the important points in the racial problems of America. I share some of the OP's frustration with what's going on in America at the moment, and in recent history.
I've heard a litany of things cited as evidence of why African Americans ought to be angry, and therefore, ought to be free to exercise their anger. I have yet to see anyone on the political left, EVER give any sort of credence to the failure of black leadership in America to talk about the very real issues within black America to do within those communities to fix things that need to be fixed. People like Tony Evans, who pastors a great church in south Dallas, talk about these things regularly. I'm sure there are others. But their voices are drowned out by the anger mongers.
Every liberal discussion about race, between blacks and whites, seems to always focus on what is wrong with whites, and how that is the only solution to black problems in the country. That that is the wrong solution for any problems for any person. We all need friends and especially people in our lives to encourage us to change what we need to change for ourselves. But in race, that never seems to be considered as any part of any solution. I went through more than three years of counseling, futilely trying to fix my 33 year marriage. First thing you learn in the process is this: You can only fix yourself. I really improved personally in that process.
There are plenty of advantages for African Americans in the country. The most obvious, is getting into colleges with lower qualifications. If my son were African American, he could have gotten into just about any great college in the country, with plenty of scholarship help, if he were black or hispanic.
The article you posted, mostly talked about the unfairness of over 150 years ago or 50 years ago, and some recent police shootings of African Americans. But white guys get shot by the police too, when they are disruptive when dealing with the police. It just doesn't show up on liberal news programs. And there is still no evidence that the death of George Floyd had anything to do with race. And that was the "reason" that all the recent rioting started. Assumptions were made because the cop was white, and the man who dies was black. But when the same kinds of assumptions are made in the other direction, they are immediately called out, rightly, for their unfairness. And no matter how anybody is treated, is does not excuse setting fire to business, or homes of innocent people.
This is a very political situation. The President has offered national guard help. Because his political opponents did not what him to have any positive appearance, to participating in helping to get the rioting reduced, that help was rejected in each case. It was rejected for purely political reasons.
There are lots of things about life in America that I am angry about. That does not give me any right to go destroy property. Or to loot stores. Or to put other people in harms way, when they're just trying to live their life. Until the rioting stops, and most African American leaders talk about that with the intent of helping to get it stopped, then blaming white folks is going to fall on mostly deaf ears. And should.
Until there are honest discussions on CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC and other liberal media, that includes talk about what both sides need to do to help the issues of race in America, then those problems are very unlikely to find any real solution. But that would take a miracle to occur. The democrats are not big believers in miracles.
