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As someone of Jewish heritage, my grandparents got off a refugee boat with no money and many dead family and dealt with systemic racism as well, however within one generation we are all living comfortably enough to not loot stores and do other dumb gangster shit. I feel like there is something else at play. Jim Crow ended in the mid 60’s. These people had practically a whole lifetime to catch up. It’s a cultural issue. They have shitty values. Not everyone, but a lot of them. Playing victim or criminal does not fix the problem. If they want respect, they should earn it like everyone else. I don’t respect looters.

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You are an ignorant and racist dickhole. You know shit of black culture and all you are doing is victim blaming. Are you White? Why am I even asking? Of course you are white. Only a white neoliberal would believe the “I was able to do it, even though I had white privilege, therefore you can too”. You know shit and your opinion means garbage. Go educate yourself and learn fucking history, maybe even make black friends before spewing shit on a topic that you know nothing about.

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I do have black friends. They are smart and do well for themselves. They are proof that there isn’t any remaining systemic racism. We had a black president for goodness sake. Their families embrace the white European culture instead of the white cracker culture. They were raised to value an education and apply themselves. That doesn’t always happen.

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1- Nobody should have to embrace European culture. European culture is not superior to any other culture. Don’t be a Eurocentric moron.

2- America cannot be racist because of Obama? Are you 5? Things got pretty racist back then with people accusing Obama of being a Muslim terrorist and wanting to see his birth certificate because they didn’t even believe that he was American. Also, as soon as his term was over Americans elected a racist fascists that enacted pretty racist policies that made lives of black people harder.

3- What kind of logic is that? Just because some black people do well doesn’t mean that systematic racism doesn’t exist. That is like saying that because some Jewish people didn’t get killed the Holocaust never happened. Or like saying that because some native Americans survived, the American Holocaust didn’t happen.

You keep spewing the same bullshit right wing rhetoric.

Here is some starter reading material for you about what systematic racism.

Median African American Household Wealth Will Reach $0 by 2053

Discriminatory housing practices are leading to the devaluation of Black Americans

Black people nine times more likely to face stop and search than white people

Wrongful convictions disproportionately affect Black Americans, report shows

Black men sentenced to more time for committing the exact same crime as a white person, study finds

Black people are about 7½ times more likely to be wrongfully convicted of murder in the U.S. than are whites, and about 80% more likely to be innocent than others convicted of murder, according to a new report by the National Registry of Exonerations.

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