When reason prevailed
Once there was a man of reason, who at the age of 29 was elected to the US Senate. He would go on to become chairman of important committee's such as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee. During his long tenure in the Senate he was prominent in fighting for policies such as The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the Violence Against Women Act.
He is seen here in what I consider his finest hour:
Much later he served as vice president and understudy to Barack Obama. By then many things had changed considerably. A terrible ideology had become the dominant force within the democratic party. The man from Scranton was now an old man suffering with cognitive issues. He would run for the highest office in the land posing as a moderate who would unite the American people. It was all a grand scheme to win the White House and all the power centers in the nation played a role in it.
The man who made that fine speech in 1993 is long gone. What remains is a mindless robot serving the forces of evil.
Now he pathetically struggles to mouth the words written for him such as: "systemic racism."
Welcome to the era of the left. May their reign be short and benign.
Trump and his supporters are off topic.
I am off topic.
How are things off the deep end ?
Oh yes, John, the radical left is "normalcy/s"
Your conception of 'normal' is what is abnormal.
I am SPECIFICALLY not the topic John. So let us get off the merry-go-round.
Vic, when you write your own articles, the author of the seed becomes part of the topic. You can't give radical opinions and then claim that their creator is not to be questioned.
You have to admit that what is radical can be quite subjective. I use the term as it would be used by the great silent majority. IE: the very philosophy you believe in.
Are you saying that the opinions you expressed are not yours, that they are coming from disinterest? This might be possible in a scholarly dissertation but not in a political blog where partisan personality rules.
Have a good day Vic ... delete away.
So you are gone for the day. Excellent! Have a good one.
The opinion can always be argued, but simply calling the author a right winger or off the deep end is nothing more than an opinionated attack. One of your comrades is contesting an opinion of mine based on the merits of the opinion - that's how it's done!
[DELETED] I agree with his policies because they are based not on browbeating and thuggery to maintain and increase oppression and ensure upward capital flight, but are designed to give America and Americans the wherewithal to better themselves without being held down by old money and old ideas.
Systemic racism is a problem in this country. The fact that you will not admit this is so shows that you are blind to the circumstances that created and maintained systemic racism and you refuse to open your eyes to the historical record of oppression.
Are they really his? Why didn't he run on them?
Systemic racism
Define it for us.
They are, by definition, the policies of his administration. Let's see, he ran on not being Trump, and thank whatever gods you pray to, he is definitely not. (You cannot delete that sentence because you brought up the subject of elections and what he ran on, but you may delete this meta, if you wish).
Systemic racism is the cultural and attitudinal differentiation of a society by the rules and procedures the society develops and implements, leading to, in the case of the United States of America, a stratification of people into classes based on differences in ethnicity and wealth. An example of systemic racism that is present in today's society is the way that youth are handled by the criminal justice system. Black children have a much higher entrance rate per capita and that entrance rate is affected by the amount of policing that occurs in black neighborhoods and the amount of activity deemed criminal by the police force and by the justice system.
Systemic racism, also called Institutionalized racism, is "baked into the mix" and therefore often difficult to identify because of the way that society views its rules and norms.
There is no "systemic racism" nor is there any evidence of it.
Please define the term and provide proof.
They are now stumped!
Greg I found and post this for you. Please do not attack me for trying to provide some info that YOU asked for.
I am but a messenger.
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w.benjerry.com/home/whats-new/2016/systemic-racism-is-real
Think about it: when white people occupy most positions of decision-making power, people of color have a difficult time getting a fair shake, let alone getting ahead.
WEALTH
According to one study Opens a new window , white families hold 90% of the national wealth, Latino families hold 2.3%, and Black families hold 2.6%. Not only that, the Great Recession hit minority families particularly hard Opens a new window , and the wealth gap Opens a new window has increased. Think about this : for every $100 white families earn in income, Black families earn just $57.30. That’s almost unbelievable—and it’s a huge racial-justice issue.
EMPLOYMENT
It’s next to impossible to build wealth without steady and rewarding employment. But the Black unemployment rate has been consistently twice that of whites Opens a new window
over the past 60 years, no matter what has been going on with the economy (whether it’s been up or down). Hmm, maybe higher education would help with that? Well, according to the data, Black people with college degrees Opens a new window are twice as likely to be unemployed as all other graduates. That may be because, as one study found Opens a new window , job applicants with white-sounding names get called back about 50% more of the time than applicants with Black-sounding names, even when they have identical resumes. (This seems to be a widespread problem: even guests with distinctively Black names Opens a new window get less positive reviews from property owners on Airbnb.)
EDUCATION
Let’s discuss education a little more in depth. If you thought that preschool, at least, was a racism-free zone, well… consider that while Black children constitute 18% of preschoolers nationwide,
they make up nearly 50% of suspensions Opens a new window . When all age groups are examined, Black students are three times more likely Opens a new window to be suspended than white students, even when their infractions are similar. Overall, Black students represent 16% of student enrollment and 27% of students referred to law enforcement. And once Black children are in the criminal justice system, they are 18 times more likely Opens a new window than white children to be sentenced as adults.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Given this, perhaps it should not come as a surprise that even though, as we said, Black people make up 13% of the population, they represent about
40% of the prison population. Why is that Opens a new window ? Perhaps because if a Black person and a white person each commit a crime, the Black person has a better chance of being arrested. It’s also true that, once arrested, Black people are convicted more often than white people. And for many years, laws assigned much harsher sentences Opens a new window for using or possessing crack, for example, compared to cocaine. Finally, when Black people are convicted, they are about 20% more likely to be sentenced to jail time, and typically see sentences 20% longer than those for whites who were convicted of similar crimes. And as we know, a felony conviction means, in many states, that you lose your right to vote. Right now in America, more than 7.4% Opens a new window of the adult African American population is disenfranchised (compared to 1.8% of the non-African American population).
HOUSING
When the government sought to make mortgages more affordable back in the 1930s, thereby jumpstarting the epoch of suburban living, the Home Owner’s Loan Corporation (and thereafter private banks)
ranked neighborhoods all around the country, giving high marks to all-white neighborhoods and marking those with minorities in red as risky investments. Redlining Opens a new window , which essentially barred Black people and other minorities from sharing in the American Dream and building wealth like their white counterparts, was officially outlawed in the ’60s, but the practice really never went away. In fact, during the Great Recession, banks Opens a new window routinely and purposely guided Black home buyers toward subprime loans. A recent study Opens a new window demonstrated that people of color are told about and shown fewer homes and apartments than whites. Black ownership is now at an all-time low Opens a new window (42%, compared to 72% for whites).
SURVEILLANCE
If you’re white, you don’t usually need to worry about being monitored by the police. But the day-to-day reality for African Americans is quite different. More than half of all young Black Americans Opens a new window know someone, including themselves, who has been harassed by the police.
Statistics also show that Black drivers are about 30% more likely than whites to be pulled over by the police Opens a new window . (So African Americans can expect to be monitored wherever they go—but did you know that they can’t even expect to safely cross the street? Black people are twice as likely to die in pedestrian accidents than whites, perhaps because, according to one study Opens a new window , motorists are less likely to stop for Black people in the crosswalk.) And of course it’s well-known that Muslims are under increasing and often illegal surveillance Opens a new window .
HEALTHCARE
African Americans in particular face discrimination in the world of healthcare too. A 2012 study found that a majority of doctors have “unconscious racial biases” when it comes to their Black patients.
Black Americans are far more likely than whites to lack access to emergency medical care. The hospitals they go to tend to be less well funded, and staffed by practitioners with less experience. But even Black doctors face discrimination: they are less likely than their similarly credentialed white peers to receive government grants for research projects. And it seems that facing a lifetime of racism leaves African Americans vulnerable to developing stress-related health issues that can lead to chronic issues later in life.
Let’s be clear: systemic racism is a corrosive and widespread problem in our society, and we all need to do a better job of confronting it—in our towns, in our neighborhoods, and in ourselves.
Want to be part of the solution? Here’s how you can take action:
Tessylo, I did no more than anyone willing to enter a few keystrokes into a computer could have done if they wanted the info.
The sad part is I doubt Biden believed anything he said then or says now. If one thing is abundantly clear from his 50 years making himself rich while being a politician, he will say whatever is in his political interest at the moment. He has no core values other than what is good for Joe Biden. If being the wokest of the woke and parroting whatever the fad of the day is for progressives helps him politically, he'll do what it takes.
Biden could support jim crow or BLM. It doesn't matter to him, as long as the votes are there.
"By then many things had changed considerably." Completely unproven conjecture.
"A terrible ideology had become the dominant force within the democratic party." Pointless partisan rhetorical opinion with zero evidence or specifics.
"The man from Scranton was now an old man suffering with cognitive issues." Ridiculous baseless fabrication.
"He would run for the highest office in the land" Okay, that's true.
"posing as a moderate who would unite the American people." No posing about it, he is a moderate.
"It was all a grand scheme to win the White House and all the power centers in the nation played a role in it." If you call a plan to bring America back from the brink of fascism a "grand scheme" then fine. We are in a demonstrably better place now after Biden took office then we were when the room temp IQ dip shit Donald was in charge.
"The man who made that fine speech in 1993 is long gone." Nope, still there and leading America into a better future regardless of all the petty whining bitter sore loser naysayers.
"What remains is a mindless robot serving the forces of evil." Can you get anymore laughable? Only truly mindless dip shits believe such moronic nonsense.
"Now he pathetically struggles to mouth the words written for him such as: "systemic racism." The only thing that is pathetic are the worthless racists who still try to claim there's no systemic racism in America despite the mountains of irrefutable evidence. They claim the "outcomes" aka the evidence of the systemic racism, shouldn't be used to prove there is systemic racism and that all those "outcomes" i.e. higher rates of stops, incarceration and longer sentences for drug offenses for black Americans vs white Americans who use and sell drugs at the same rates must be for some other reason they can't quite put there finger on, but it certainly can't be skin color because that would be admitting that there is a problem with the status quo and racist whites are desperate to maintain the status quo where they enjoy preferential treatment.