Systemic/Institutional Racism: There is One word refutes that concept completely

 

We are now being told that the systemic racism is so deep and embedded in our society that not only are all white people racists at birth, they don’t even know it. They can’t know it. And that every disagreement that a conservative has with a leftist can be boiled down to the conservative being racist no matter what the subject or policy.

HOWEVER: There is one word that completely refutes the notion that America is a systemically and institutionally racists country. One word and one word alone that destroys the concept of institutional racism rampant through the country. One word that cannot be disputed in the power of the word defeating any institutional racist argument. That one word is OBAMA. President Obama was elected in 2008 as the country’s first black president. It is inconceivable that he could have been elected if the nation was wholly racist. Inconceivable. You can’t mix in any intelligent sentence the word Obama and racism. Think about it. The country’s population is 13% black and yet 51% of voters voted for Obama. How is electing a black president possible in an institutional racist world? Is this an over simplification? Or just too common sense to be sensical? The answer is yes. It is all common sense. Electing the country’s first black president was a BIG deal. And it happened with a huge white voter turnout for Obama. It’s just not possible to do that if we are racist to the core.

Now I am not saying that racism does not exist. I am not saying there are not prejudices in the world. But institutional racism? Not possible. And there are plenty more examples of prominent black people that have achieved the highest successes in this so called institutionally racist country. How about Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court? Or Oprah Winfrey – net worth $3.5 billion? Or Cory Booker and Kamala Harris, both hugely influential black Senators? Or Colin Powell or Condoleezza Rice – two hugely popular and successful Secretary of States? Or Herman Cain – prominent black businessman and President of Godfathers Pizza? Or Marvin Ellison Lowes CEO? Or Black Mayors such as Lori Lightfoot – Chicago, or Sylvester Turner from Houston or Eric Johnson from Dallas? And the many other Black mayors of major cities throughout the US. Or what about all of the Black police Chiefs and District Attorneys of major cities? And of course, consider the imbalance of Black athletes in professional sports such as Basketball and Football? I could go on and on listing hugely successful and influential Black Americans in this so called institutionally racist country. How could that happen with institutional racism? Again, I am not saying that racism doesn’t exist in people and places in this country. I am just saying Institutional? Doesn’t make sense. Not possible. But just to keep it simple, stick with my one-word common sense irrefutable argument that clearly proves institutional racism does not exist in America – OBAMA.