No one denies racism exists. The center-right Black "1776" position is simply that this variable does not explain all problems in POC communities or differences in performance between groups. A 6% bias in apartment rental does not cause a 72% 'illegitimacy' rate.
(2) There are 3 problems with the "ethnic conflict explains all ills" narrative: (a) many of today's problems (fatherlessness) did not exist when racism was much worse, (b) many do not exist for POC immigrants today, and (c) all exist at very high levels for poor WHITE people.
(3) There's a lot to unpack here. ~Equal rates of bigotry exist against groups that perform very differently. Polls showing 8% of Americans wouldn't vote for a qualified Black President ALSO find 9% rates of bias vs Hispanics and Jews...and 40% vs Muslims. news.gallup.com/poll/183791/su…
(4) There are TWO distinct problems to fight here. First, what do we do about the 6-8% of people who wouldn't rent to a Black guy or a Jew? 2nd, what do we do about issues like crime in poor Black AND white communities, which are often at-best-weakly related to the first problem.
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