Thread by @chadfelixg

Racism did limit opportunity for many black Americans in many areas in the past.

This was based almost exclusively on the political action of Democrats in southern states.

Black Americans had different experiences in other parts of the country.

See: Thomas Sowell.

Urban centers economically trapped millions in the single most toxic and dangerous environments human beings can live in.

Black Americans, like millions of others, relocated to city centers for work. Poverty in city centers was addressed with welfare programs.

Welfare programs quickly evolved into circular traps which became generational traps. They deincentivized marriage and incentivized children. They conditioned people into dependence on the government.

Poverty simply became a government-funded cage.

Black Americans in city centers were heavily impacted by this circular trap. Where there is dense populations with high poverty, there is high crime and a breakdown of civic balance in favor of gangs and other self-governing systems in opposition to civil life.

This cage replicated everywhere dense populations became dependent on government for daily sustenance.

Democrat campaigns to encourage black Americans to turn to government over free markets resulted in more densely populated black American poverty.

Racism was a significant obstacle, but was one thousands of black Americans overcame through exploiting the American free market system and *not* turning to government for living assistance.

Education.
Healthcare.
Environment.

All dramatically worse under government control.

What progressives are doing today is measuring the sociological impact of government dependence using high level metrics narrowed down by race.

The results show black Americans clustering on the negative side of those metrics.

They observe the urban environment.

But rather than conclude that dense urban populations living under a government managed system that restricts access to all the things progressives deem to be measures of population health, they look only at the race filter and make their determination.

'Racism' is the cause.

This makes sense under the White Supremacy worldview which argues the system described above is the result of white privilege and malicious control of the black population.

'Systemic racism' is, essentially, the progressive Democratic model of government managed populations.

White populations, very broadly defined, score higher on these metrics which validates the overall theory.

They do not consider many groups condensed under 'white' experienced similar discrimination, relocated to cities for similar reasons and became trapped too.

What they have reduced to racial differences should be better understood as cultural differences.

People with family history dating back to the revolution were less likely to turn to government for support.

The Irish were culturally used to oppression and poverty.

Jewish immigrants were very skeptical of government aid and preferred to support their own community.

Korean immigrants were culturally more self-sustaining and built their own small businesses.

French and German immigrants organized differently than the Dutch and so on.

The one common thread connecting generational poverty in America is dependence on the government rather than self-reliance or community reliance.

Health.
Environment.
Crime.

All depend on if you or the government is providing for you.

Wealth transfer between generations is only possible when one generation is in control of their economic system. You cannot transfer government sustenance.

Progressives view the racial economic gap as proof of racism, when it is proof of progressive economics.

The primary factor in all of this, ignored entirely by progressives and even accused of being a tool of white supremacy, is individual choice.

Regardless of condition of birth, the American individual can choose which path to take.

The progressive left denies this reality.

Generational dependence on government coupled with debt and an economic system that favors educational achievement over skill has made escaping poverty much, much harder.

But more government interference will only make it worse.

History is very clear on that fact.

So are black Americans disproportionately impacted in the way the left is asserting, even the CDC?

Yes.

But its not 'systemic racism.'
Its systemic progressivism championed by the Democratic party for more than a century.