In San Juan, Puerto Rico, Peter Boghossian asked five people to consider the claim, “The US is designed to privilege white people.” Peter was the only white person participating in the conversation.
One of the participants said that he just wasn’t aware that blacks can become doctors and, essentially, that the system will be systemically racists until there are as many black doctors as white doctors (in terms of proportion to race percentages in society). Unstated is the fact that there are yawning academic gaps between whites (and Asians) on the one hand and blacks in the other hand in secondary school, and before that in middle school, and before that in elementary school, and before that when kids first start school. It is frustrating that these factors are glossed over as if they are irrelevant -- or don’t even exist at all. And, instead, it’s all caused by “systemic racism.”
In "Fear White Men" (but not for long; hunting season might be coming) "We should be profiling, monitoring, and creating policies to fight the radicalization of white men," lhan Abdullahi Omar, an American Congresswoman" short essay I've pulled a black pall over that misconception.
Would you like to talk about this issue with the US systemic unfair treatment of non white. According the contract laws, and discrimination laws. Whether they or the system purposely do so is irrelevant. In the face of the law, if the result is unfair to a group, then it is ground for discrimination. Google female employee class action suit vs google 2017. Google did not want it that way so they claim, butt the process and peoople in place created the situatiion where females were making 1-3k lower than male for the same job.
One of the participants said that he just wasn’t aware that blacks can become doctors and, essentially, that the system will be systemically racists until there are as many black doctors as white doctors (in terms of proportion to race percentages in society). Unstated is the fact that there are yawning academic gaps between whites (and Asians) on the one hand and blacks in the other hand in secondary school, and before that in middle school, and before that in elementary school, and before that when kids first start school. It is frustrating that these factors are glossed over as if they are irrelevant -- or don’t even exist at all. And, instead, it’s all caused by “systemic racism.”
Yes, it is good to listen, and all four of the black participants were very articulate, and held similar beliefs.
As for you, yourself, I felt that you held back, maybe pulled some punches, and did not do what you usually do with similar groups.
I don’t think this went as planned, or as you expected.
How many of these people were Americans? Tourists?
It would be so interesting to know what this same group thought 10 years ago.
Not anymore.
In "Fear White Men" (but not for long; hunting season might be coming) "We should be profiling, monitoring, and creating policies to fight the radicalization of white men," lhan Abdullahi Omar, an American Congresswoman" short essay I've pulled a black pall over that misconception.
https://trygvewighdal.substack.com/p/fear-black-men-no-fear-white-men
Would you like to talk about this issue with the US systemic unfair treatment of non white. According the contract laws, and discrimination laws. Whether they or the system purposely do so is irrelevant. In the face of the law, if the result is unfair to a group, then it is ground for discrimination. Google female employee class action suit vs google 2017. Google did not want it that way so they claim, butt the process and peoople in place created the situatiion where females were making 1-3k lower than male for the same job.