Mr Khan said:
It's not a post-racial society because racism hasn't been vanquished. In both Europe and America, it's simply taken on forms that are harder to see, like how a black man is more likely to get the death penalty in a crime, or how these legally justifiable homicides in Florida happen to disproportionately affect black people. Like the legal argument against provisions of the Voting Rights Act, they may have a case, and their arguments should be considered on their own merits despite the fact that the underlying cause for the argument to begin with is racially colored, but we should acknowledge that we have not solved these problems, and continue to work to solve them. We in America have not gotten as far as we have without both bold action against racism, as well as slow shifting of cultural norms. Both are needed still. |
You're avoiding the question a litte, but it's a big topic so it could be left for another time to be discussed in depth.
Or perhaps you're not avoiding perhaps, and I'm afraid it is so, that you are only able to see the wrongs made by white people and your mind is set on that.
Do you accept that all ethnic groups can be racist, not just the white race or traditional Western society?
You claim the legal system is discriminating black people. But do you have facts to back that up? What if black people are disproportionately represented in crime that has death penalty as a consequence? Logically then follows that black people are more likely to get a death penalty.
About the voting rights act. It's the regulations to make it harder to register and vote, right? That question has racial implications, but how can you imply that the core motivation is racial? The core motivation is that typically, no faction of society wants to lose its influence. If I was a republican, and knowing that in politics all sorts of dirty tricks are common, I too might support measures I knew would support a result in elections in my faction's favor.
But if black voters happened to be leaning Republican, you would see the Republicans promote a different kind of Voting Rights Act. So the core motivation is not racial or racist.
Bold actions against racism you say. But you don't see the risk of such a movement going overboard? That if we only see white people care about minority rights, but not so much vice versa, we'll soon see ourselves in a situation we're white people are the ones being discriminated. And no one is defending our rights. (already happened in Sweden, where minorities and foreigners have much stronger legal and societal rights compared to the native population, and the trend is going strongly in a direction where natives soon are sidelined in all areas of society)
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