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Originally Posted by loramin
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Short answer: racism an incredibly complex and multi-layered problem which will need to be attacked from multiple angles and for a very long time before we can ever possibly consider it to be "ended".
Longer answer; it's not "five points" but ...
You don't fix deep-rooted societal issues overnight. You have to change people's minds, and with stuff that's as deeply entrenched as institutional racism that can mean going through not just one but multiple generations of people, as each new generation is able to progress with less of the hang-ups from their parents.
But practically speaking I see a few clear ways to help end it, and to tell whether or not it has been ended.
- The Justice System - will be fixed when all races are treated equally in the justice system (eg. when blacks get the same sentences for the equivalent crimes as whites). How do we get there? Partly it's a public perception problem, and partly it's the responsibility of municipalities and police departments to setup measures (eg. body cameras) which discourage racism, and of legal workers to study sentences given and try to correct for racial inequities.
- Public Perception - will be fixed when society sees all races equally ... in other words when white's don't think black people experience less pain, when peoples' (even black peoples') heart rate doesn't rise when a black man enters the room, etc. How do we get there? Artists have to make a change. The people behind TV, movies, etc. need to cast blacks (and other minorities) in to normal/generic/white roles, so that society doesn't always see them being portrayed as criminals and cops.
- Economics - will be fixed when you can't predict a person's socio-economic status in any way from their race. This means both doing outreach to open up career paths that are not traditionally "black" (eg. programming) and ensuring that black workers make equal pay (for equal work) as their white co-workers. How do we get there? I think this problem is so massive and woven into society that the government has to play a part, but at the same time I don't think you can have the government (say) give free college to all black kids. Instead, I think we need to change our educational and recruiting efforts to target poor people of any ethnicity and get them in to successful careers they wouldn't otherwise have. Since minorities tend to be poorer, such efforts by definition will help them more, and if you repeat this cycle (again, over a long time) you can eventually get to equality.
- Other stuff which I'd defer to experts on; I'm certainly no expert on solving racial problems.
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I am an expert so here.
point 1 - Police are "racist" when theyre in ghettos that you would be to afraid to even drive through, so stop pretending that police are racist in the vast majority of places outside of them.
2 - society does see all race equally but when a black person dresses like a gangbanger you're supposed to also see them the same way as the black guy on the other side of the isle who is wearing cargo shorts and a super hero t shirt.
3 - if you are in contact with people who think black people feel less pain than white people, than I suggest you move cus you live in an unfixable part of missisippi and have no hope at a decent life there.
4 - you cannot predict a persons economic state unless you look at how they dress and by the numbers black people who are not poor dress poor and therefore people make assumptions about them. (so their heart rate rises)