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In reply to the discussion: Who the heck does the San Francisco police think they are to demand an apology [View all]NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)No, it doesn't. Apartheid was a planned, enforced system of racial segregation that stemmed from beliefs of superiority of one race over another. Black people are not forbidden by law in the United States from living in certain communities based on the color of their skin. Black people are not forbidden by law in the United States from attending certain schools based on the color of their skin. The only deliberate attempts at segregating people based on the color of their skin comes from minority students and social justice crowds at universities.
If the United States was an apartheid state, black people would be forbidden from attending certain schools or living in certain neighborhoods for no reason other than the color of their skin, the President of the United States would not be a black man, sports teams would not take black athletes, and the entertainment industry would not hire black actors. You seem to think that a lack of equality of outcome is indicative of a lack of equality of opportunity or some structural racism, which it certainly isn't.
Citation needed for the latter part. Even if the majority of people who voted against him did so for racial reasons, that is not indicative of structural racism, only that a lot of individuals hold racist views, and that they are in the minority.
Disagreeing with something a black man said is not racism. The more and more you guys use that as an escape hatch to avoid having to deal with facts and differing opinions, the more and more you devalue incidents of actual racism and insulate yourselves in an ever-expanding bubble.