More Race Hysteria from SJW's

[henryp]

I also recognize that African-Americans, as a demographic category, lag behind other demographic groups in terms of income level and housing as a legacy of Jim Crow era institutionalized racism. But I do not for one minute believe that institutional racism exists anymore. There is no widespread belief in or promotion of white supremacy. People who hold those views are fringe losers that in no way represent the attitudes the vast majority of people. America is not a racist nation just because it is not entirely free from prejudice or because statistically some groups outperform others. Asian-Americans do not outperform Anglo-Americans because of racism. A right-leaning person attributes the success of Asian-Americans to a culture of excellence, hard work, and strong family involvement. Left-leaning interpretations simply cannot account for such disparities.

I don't think the motivations are necessarily racist, but their are a lot of decisions made in self-interest that have the same effect.  

People want their kids to go the best school possible, typically.  That means you look up the school stats, and buy your house in the neighborhood with the best school.  Then you make sure you support the politicians that aren't going to bus your kid across town to the shitty school.  In a lot of cases, the 'best school' and the 'white/asian' school are synonymous.  And the shitty school is the poor minority school.   This is a reason I assume a lot of white women vote for Trump/Republicans.  

The country's history of racism basically poked a bunch of holes in black america's boat.  And rather than try to fix their boat, we just yell for people to jump into the water and swim for it.  And we celebrate when someone from the shitty school beats the odds, graduates, gets a good job, and can now buy a house in the neighborhood we live in, and now their kids can go to the nice school.  But the boat they came from is still full, and sinking.  It's not a great solution.

But an actual solution probably involves diluting the amount of shitty kids per class by spreading them out over a number of schools, instead of piling them all in one.  But strangely enough, when looking for volunteers to send their kids to the black school instead of the white school, progressives clam up real quick about equal opportunity.  Almost everyone with actual skin in the game regardless of political affiliation is in favor of keeping the status quo.   

I don't know if designed economic segregation qualifies as institutional racism, but the results seem mostly interchangeable.