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Ezana  ·  3456 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Systemic Racism and Standing Up To It (AKA Violence Is Almost Inevitable)

    The only way for racism to be "solved" (quotations because of course racism as a whole will never fade away) is for the system that we live in to adapt. The only people capable of doing this is the government itself.

Agreed that racism is systemic, but I'm going to have to disagree with the quoted part. The state is absolutely not the only body capable of solving racism. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that the current state edifice absolutely cannot solve racism. That is a problem which must be solved by us, by society, by The People. The way I see it, when I see Jim Crow drug laws, racist policing, and discriminatory policies across the spectrum of public life, what I see is a state which stands in the way of a solution. Which upholds racism. I don't see a way to "solve racism" (or any other comparably deep social ill) without replacing the state.