racism

1s 2eniers will always demand that one must prove it still exists. And yet, it stands to reason that given the fact that the US is literally built on slavery and Jim Crow, the burden of evidence ought to lie with the denier to show conclusively when precisely it ended.

As laws change and particular manifestations of racism fade from societal acceptance racism doesn't end, it evolves. And in light of the United States' uninterrupted history of racism, anyone observing that it continues today needn't prove it so. That's on the people claiming this centuries-old facet of US culture and society somehow disappeared. So here's the challenge, racism deniers. Prove when racism ended and its effects were allayed. Show, with data and peer-reviewed studies supporting your argument, when the effects of the hundreds of years of anti-Black racism from chattel slavery through Old Jim Crow leveled off. Show when the wealth expropriated during that oppression was repaid to those it was expropriated from and through. And remember, after you've addressed the end of anti-Black racism you'll still have to explain when anti-Latinx, anti-Asian, anti-Arab, and anti-Native racism came to an end as well.

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