I prefer the term structural racism because the reality is that these biases are built into spaces far broader than traditional institutions.
think of the bigger picture: structural racism is dozens, hundreds, thousands of people with the same biases in positions of power having a collective impact. They don't have to be working together, it is just that those prejudices are in a position to have an impact on peoples lives.
The British Social Attitudes survey recently saw a significant increase in the number of people who were happy to admit to their own racism. The sharpest increase was from white professional men between 35-64, highly educated and earning a lot of money. This is structural racism. These men are more likely to be landlords, bosses, CEOs, head teachers, university chancellors - the point is that they are positions with the power to influence peoples lives. These men are unlikely to boast about their racism because of the social stigma assocated with racist views.. but prejudices can be covert. It doesn't necessarily manifest in spitting at black people in the street but it can manifest in forms like throwing a CV in the bin because the applicant has a foreign sounding name. There are statistics to support this.
When these positions put obstacles in place for people of colour, it has an impact. Disparity in employment, crime and income among other measures.
A 2013 British report showed that black people are twice as likely to be charged with drugs possession - despite lower rates of drug use. A 2003 NHS England report confirmed that there is a "uniformity of findings that people of African and African Caribbean backgrounds are more at risk than any other ethnic group in England to be admitted to psychiatric hospitals under the compulsory powers of the mental health act" (sectioned against your will). An inquiry into the death of black man David Bennett who died in a psychiatric unit showed that black people tend to receive higher doses of anti-psychotic drugs than whites with similar health problems. They are generally regarded by mental health staff as more aggressive, alarming, dangerous, difficult to treat. They are more likely to remain as long term in-patients rather than being released to the community. Can anyone see how if you prejudice tells you that black people are inherently aggressive then that can have an effect, through your job, and on peoples lives.
Then people like qman come along and suggest it's genetic difference that will naturally give the result of racial inequality in society.
What jobs are done by the white people here?
Law enforcement is largely white. Attitudes that blackness is inherently linked with violence and crime (THREAT) mean that the "justifications" for deadly force happens fast. Look at what happened to Castille. Driving while black is one thing but when black people follow police instructions, they cannot be sure that their interaction with the police will not be fatal.
US police chief wanted to 'mow down' black people
The Feds Say These 'Crusaders' Wanted To Murder Muslim Immigrants In Terror Attack. Here's What Their Bomb Would've Done.
WHEN AN ATTACKER IS MUSLIM, MENTAL HEALTH QUESTIONS RARELY SEEM TO GET RAISED
Miami firefighters fired for hanging noose on black colleague’s photoQuote: Among those terminated was William W. Bryson, son of the department’s former fire chief, because he allegedly did not report the incident to higher-ups and failed to prevent the hate incident from happening. His father, who served in the department for decades, fired 62 black firemen in the early 1990s ostensibly for their support of affirmative action efforts.
Black Man Was Killed in 1983 for Socializing With White Woman, Prosecutors Say
Quote: In mid-October, authorities arrested five individuals, including two law-enforcement officers, in the 30-year-old cold case after the Spalding County, Ga., Sheriff’s Office reopened the case in March after receiving new information.
NY School District Apologizes After Automated Phone Call Uses Racial Slur Instead of Student’s Name



 Nazis and KKK have infiltrating the ranks of law enforcement for a long time.
Black man beaten by white nationalists at Charlottesville faces criminal charge I'm pretty sure this was outside of a police station
qman and other racists, are you just going to continue to argue this is just genetic difference?
Whiteness is a construct
Quote: Allen’s study presents a full-scale challenge to what he refers to as “The Great White Assumption” — the unquestioning acceptance of the “white race” and “white” identity as skin color-based and natural attributes rather than as social and political constructions.
His thesis on the origin, nature and maintenance of the “white race” and his contenion that slavery in the Anglo-American plantation colonies was capitalist and that enslaved Black laborers were proletarians, provide the basis of a revolutionary approach to United States labor history.
Quote: the “white race” was invented as a ruling-class social control formation in response to labor solidarity as manifested in the later (civil war) stages of Bacon’s Rebellion (1676-77).
To this he adds two important corollaries: 1) the ruling elite deliberately instituted a system of racial privileges to define and maintain the “white race” and to implement a system of racial oppression, and 2) the consequence was not only ruinous to the interest of African Americans, but was also disastrous for European-American workers.
Rich white boys of the far-right do not need protection, marginalised communities do. But some of you here defend these groups and actually hate more on the people who fight against them. Its just nonsensical.
Racists and apologists here are the cover for fascism because your arguments defend their narratives.
If you think people of colour are inherently inferior then you wouldn't want to mix with them, you would want separate societies and history has always shown that the dehumanised will obviously be treated less than human.
How much of a jump is it to join the alt-right?
Richard Spencer:
Quote: “We are undergoing a sad process of degeneration… We will need to reverse it using the state and the government. You incentivize people with higher intelligence, you incentivize people who are healthy to have children. And it sounds terrible and nasty, but there would be a great use of contraception.”
Quote: Today, in the public imagination, ‘ethnic cleansing’ has been associated with civil war and mass murder (understandably so),” Spencer said. “But this need not be the case. 1919 is a real example of successful ethnic redistribution—done by fiat, we should remember, but done peacefully.”
qman and others: "what nazis?" "what violence?" even seig heiling richard spencer pretends there were no nazis. 
Imagine if I was denying that there were jihadist groups in the US and Europe? You would lose your minds with incredulity.
This is worth a watch if you haven't already seen it.. vice documentary on charlottesville
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