Is there a race problem in America?

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If you’re not white and you live in the US and you don’t experience racism then you either (a) need to go buy a lottery ticket because you are the luckiest person in the country; or (b) need to get out more.

I jest. I’m glad you don’t experience it.
 
Thanks for sharing that story. And thanks way, way more for mentoring that boy. That right there is agape love - love in action.
 
I’m pretty much center-right politically. And I can’t stand hearing the political conservative talking point “All Lives Matter” as if that wasn’t already a given and it’s the sound of a disingenuous dogwhistle that waters down these issues in our country.

It’s “Black Lives Matter”. Period. That doesn’t mean nobody else matters. And all lives can’t matter if blacks don’t. It’s what we strive for as Christians.
 
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It’s “Black Lives Matter”. Period. That doesn’t mean nobody else matters. And all lives can’t matter if blacks don’t. It’s what we strive for as Christians.
I wish I would’ve written this. In fact, I’m going to write it (really your whole post) and claim I made it up. Thanks.
 
Again, there is no institutional racism or systemic racism in this country, period. Are there racist? Yes, but tell me what do you want me to do about it? I dont hang around any racist? No one in my family to the best of my knowledge is racist. Where I work 50% of all the call center agents or minorities and mainly black.
 
If you’re not white and you live in the US and you don’t experience racism then you either (a) need to go buy a lottery ticket because you are the luckiest person in the country; or (b) need to get out more.
Agreed, personal experiences.
 
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The sin of racism has all the elements that could make it the mortal variety,
 
Are you trying to say these men are not qualified to hold their position?
 
Are you trying to say these men are not qualified to hold their position?
No, I was saying that the picture is overwhelmingly white and male. You can’t see anything funny about the picture? Expand your consciousness, as we used to say.

It was bad timing, too, since we just got a black head of the Air Force.
 
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So, many complaints have been made by people that they were not hired because of their race? Were these complaints proven to be true? Was there proof that someone that was more competent for a job was refused it because they had ‘the wrong color skin’? Or are people sometimes bitter when they don’t get a job, and give various reasons for why they were probably not given the job, other than just not being good enough for it?
Not related to race but I have seen comments such as I will never hire a woman, and I don’t want to work with women. It’s hard to proove the reason someone didn’t get a job was illegal.
 
I see nothing funny at all. I see very qualified people who have thru their hard work been promoted to positions of leadership
 
Geez. That’s a tough one. No racism without proof. I mean these days, you’d probably need video for anyone to believe it right? Video proof - now that’s a hard one.

A video…Hmmmmm. I’m going to go out on a limb here, so give me some rope - but imagine we had a video of a black guy pinned to the ground for - oh, just to make it really crazy - say 8 minutes (I know - that’s silly and would never happen, but work with me here). And further imagine that he was begging for mercy the whole time, and then he died. Would that work?
Pretty much. Having said that, does it matter that the officer might have done this to a white suspect, if there are some suspects he knows he can get away with and obviously some he can’t?

In other words, if an officer were to treat people differently depending on whether or not there was a perception that the city could be sued, that is a problem. If an officer were to treat some people differently because of the perception that complaints from some people are more likely to be automatically dismissed as untrustworthy, that is a problem. Even though this is just what any of us might do in a tough situation, if someone in a position of trust is changing behavior based on whether one is going to be held to account or not means some are “more equal than others” already.

Archbishop Sample has pointed out that this is what lead to the McCarrick failure: that is, no one was in place to hold that bishop to account for the abuse of his office. Instead, it is the people who could have spoken up who were afraid of retribution. The victims were the ones who were afraid of speaking up, because they knew even worse could happen to them. That kind of situation is a gross injustice. When someone has great authority and no one to hold them to account, though, that kind of thing will happen eventually. If it can happen in a seminary, after all, can it not happen anywhere?
 
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Archbishop Sample has pointed out that this is what lead to the McCarrick failure: that is, no one was in place to hold that bishop to account for the abuse of his office. Instead, it is the people who could have spoken up who were afraid of retribution. The victims were the ones who were afraid of speaking up, because they knew even worse could happen to them. That kind of situation is a gross injustice. When someone has great authority and no one to hold them to account, though, that kind of thing will happen eventually. If it can happen in a seminary, after all, can it not happen anywhere?
This is why the few bad apples argument does not work anymore. Not for the Church and certainly not for the police.

There will always be bad apples but if the response to complaints against these bad apples is nothing at best or retribution at worst, the organization should be held accountable.

The Church has learned this lesson the hard way.
 
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Are you trying to say these men are not qualified to hold their position?
How is it possible that the military has been integrated since World War II and yet somehow those most qualified for the highest positions of leadership are all the same color?
The fraction of women in the military is down around 10-20%; OK. As for racial demographics, though, only about 54% of the military is white.
 
I see nothing funny at all. I see very qualified people who have thru their hard work been promoted to positions of leadership
I should have asked you what is odd about the picture. That’s more exactly the issue.
 
There will always be bad apples but if the response to complaints against these bad apples is nothing at best or retribution at worst, the organization should be held accountable.
That doesn’t work because the one’s responsible for justice that failed their office by their own fault have that blame. An institution isn’t a monolith and it is made up of who know’s how many people so painting with a broad brush cannot possibly be correct.
 
That doesn’t work because the one’s responsible for justice that failed their office by their own fault have that blame. An institution isn’t a monolith and it is made up of who know’s how many people so painting with a broad brush cannot possibly be correct.
So if a Communist government doesn’t work, it is because the individuals aren’t doing it right?
If feudalism doesn’t work, it is because the individuals aren’t doing it right?

Sorry, but systems can run all the way from supporting just behavior and vigilantly working against unjust behavior all the way to making just behavior something that even a saint won’t be able to do for long without being found out and stopped.

In other words, institutions do matter, and institutions that aren’t making themselves the solution to these problems cannot help but to be part of the problem, because they discourage those who want to change problems.
 
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