I have spent the better part of the past 2 days being told that I am a racist - because I want to know what racism or oppression successful, strong, athletes at the top of their game are suffering in a nation where a black president just finished his second term.
I don't see racism as a burgeoning problem in the US. I don't because the people I know, work with, associate with and meet don't count their friends, interactions or acquaintances by the color of their skin.
When you read articles about the "growing problem of racism" in the US, or look at polls about racism, these are all subjective. They all say racism is getting worse, because people feel that racism is getting worse.
But, there isn't any quantifiable evidence, empirical, measurable studies that show that racism is worse today than in the past. In fact, everything that can be measured shows that racism is at its lowest rate than ever before.
So how is there a disconnect this big between what is real and what people feel is real?
All the articles point to blacks being shamelessly targeted by police and that this is one factor that makes it clear that racism is growing. Yet, when actual numbers and statistics are analyzed, we find this narrative false.
So why the divide? Because we are being told more and more often, in news and print media, on radio and by pundits, that this is the case.
Why would the people we trust for news and information push and present this type of lie? Indeed, that is an excellent question. One I have been asking for a while.
I can only extrapolate, given the numbers, the facts, and the polls, that the false narrative serves the purpose of someone or ones who are powerful and who wants the US to be in a state of racial and civic unrest.
You have to ask yourself a couple of questions: first - are you a cruel, callous racist who would see your neighbor fail? And, if not that - then who would this unrest serve?
Stop buying the lies you are being fed and look at true facts and numbers. Look it up.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/451466/police-violence-against-black-men-rare-heres-what-data-actually-say
