Systemic racism

Clever term. Very common today.

All encompassing if it's a system. That means we're all a part, even liberals and leftists . . . whether black, Hispanic, Asian and white.

Even if your 19th Irish and German ancestors or your post WWII immigrant Baltic or Jewish grandparents had no part in slavery or Jim Crow;

even if your parents came here from Nigeria or Kenya or Somalia along with a few million other African immigrants in the last two decades;

even if you live below the poverty line.

That means any one of the 130 income transfer programs--TANF, Medicaid, SNAP, WIC, housing, utilities, CSFP, school breakfast, lunch and snacks--of the last 55 years of the so-called "War on Poverty" are racist in intent, design and outcome. Both parties. They were totally bi-partisan.

If racism is systemic, that's you. Right? You haven't been living off the grid in a cabin in the Rockies with no internet, running water or electricity, not if you're reading Facebook or Twitter or the Washington Post.

So if you've been marching smugly expressing your first amendment rights while denying me mine, or posting blather banners and yard signs about racism and how much you care, pointing fingers with 4 pointing back at you--

Ask what has

• your union,
• your academic department
• your "woke" corporation,
• your bank,
• the real estate firm you hired,
• the church you belong to,
• your profession,
• your pension plan,
• your state and local government,
• your candidates and PAC,
• your apartment management firm,
• your senator or representative,
• your gardener or house cleaner,
• your favorite restaurant,
• your investments manager,
• your whole/organic market,
• your elitist club that only the best people belong to. . .

done to contribute to the system.

Of course, to do that, you'd have to be self reflective. You'd have to toss out some of the Kool-Aid you've been swallowing from the very people who have used these programs to lie to you. There is no growing income inequality; there is no rampant racism from the police; black people are not being slaughtered by white people; and under Trump, minorities were making huge strides. You'd have to acknowledge that something or someone, call it the swamp dwellers if you wish or blame George Soros or the Communist underbelly of this country, it really doesn't matter. You've been poisoned, and it is like sepsis, and that poison is systemic, and you're doing it to yourselves if you're allowing these groups to make you grovel, wear African stoles, kneel, toss bricks and riot.

Yes, let's have that "conversation." Tell us what you have done that was racist and how you personally plan to change. I'll wait.