As the new Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ibram Kendi, likes to say: "There is nothing wrong with black people." By contrast, entire academic disciplines are devoted to studying everything that is wrong with white people and whiteness.
For the Left, it's always 1857 and the highest court of the land has just declared that the black man has "No rights which the white man [is] bound to respect." Racial progress is either emphatically denied, said to be dwarfed by racist progress, or begrudgingly conceded in passing.
The widespread persistence of disparities in life outcomes between blacks and whites is proof positive that racism is alive and well.
An America free of racism is defined as an America in which black people are proportionally represented in all realms of life.
At the deepest level, racial justice aims to provide our fellow black citizens with what Stokely Carmichael, the founder of Black Power, called "Psychological equality." Under the best of conditions, psychological equality between groups-no feelings of inferiority or superiority-is a most elusive goal.
In an America context, where a majority-white country produced extraordinary achievements but also subjugated and demeaned blacks for centuries, it is near impossible.
American and Western accomplishments, by contrast, are downplayed, said to have been stolen from blacks or falsely attributed to them.
https://americanmind.org/features/lefts-war-free-speech/permanent-racism/
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