Thread by @RVAdirt

Woke up to a research challenge from Mike D.

Holding up data to justify racist statements doesn’t make it OK to hold racist beliefs. Data ignores the systemic white supremacy that was put in place to maintain the socioeconomic disparity so white people can maintain power. 1/10🧜🏻‍♀️

For example, here Mike “Dinesh D’Souza” D blames the lack of black fathers pointing to data.

You can’t fix a problem by focusing on just outcomes. You get to solutions by addressing root cause.

What is the reason for the disparity of lacking a consistent father figure? 🧜🏻‍♀️

Mike D hasn’t given specific reasons why he thinks there is a disparity; however, his comments the other night seem to elude that he has a belief there is a connection to the criminal justice system. 3/10 🧜🏻‍♀️

Point blank: pointing to incarceration rate data while ignoring the ways that white people have set up the system to intentionally lock up black people, especially black men, at a disproportionate rate is racist. 4/10 🧜🏻‍♀️

Any answer someone gives for the disproportionate rate of why people of color are incarcerated at a higher rate OTHER than white people intentionally set up a criminal justice system to oppress people of color is racist. 5/10 🧜🏻‍♀️

To be able to believe that data is reflective of reality means that someone has to believe there is an inherent behavior difference between white people and people of color.

That’s literally racist. 6/10 🧜🏻‍♀️

We have a majority white police force who operate on subjective rules set up by white people and enforced by white people who have biases.

Incarceration rate disparity is because of white people’s actions to disproportionately arrest and convict people of color. 7/10 🧜🏻‍♀️

Making disparaging comments about Mayor Stoney’s ability to handle the results of a system of white supremacy is ignorant to the reality of the system white people of the past set up to benefit future generations. 8/10 🧜🏻‍♀️

In conclusion, no.... RVA Dirt won’t dare state what Mike D thinks is obvious because that surface level analysis is racist. RVA Dirt will continue to vocally advocate to dismantle the system of white supremacy ESPECIALLY in the face of the prison-industrial complex. 9/9 🧜🏻‍♀️

With that said... Happy Monday folx!

Destroy fash.
Dismantle white supremacy.
Stand strong in solidarity.
Take care of yourself and each other.

Make it a great week. 🖤 🏴 #SquadGoals (10/10) 🧜🏻‍♀️

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