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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
I thought systematic racism implied that rules/laws were in place to facilitate descriminating against POC. I think this no longer exists.
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It's partly this - and yes they do still exist, mostly relating to drug charges, but there are some other examples, even though they might not be intended to target black people. The other part, and at this point probably the more significant part, is the legacy of many years in which overtly racist policies existed that sort of shaped American society into its current form. The precise degree to which those two factors result in the worse outcomes for black people that we see in the USA in the present day is debatable, but it doesn't seem likely that that degree is in any way minor.
So I think you have it precisely backwards. I don't think Blake gets shot in the back by that cop because the cop has no regard for black peoples' lives and thinks they're inferior. I think part of the reason that black people like Blake find themselves in that situation in the first place more often than white people do (per capita) is in no small part to do with those historical factors and their legacy, along with, as noted, unfairly designed criminal policies.