The Civil Rights Movement was over 50 years ago. You cannot keep using things like that- and even less slavery- as arguments for the existence of "systemic racism". There are probably real problems facing black people in America, but a lot of them are self made and cultural in nature, and have nothing to do whatsoever with the events of over 100 years ago.
This couldn't be any further from the truth. You are ignoring the events of 200 years of history that led to the problems facing black communities today. It's exactly statements like these which are why critical race theory needs to be taught.
Yes, black people were freed from slavery in 1865. But our ancestors weren't given their freedoms guaranteed by the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments as promised by the constitution of the united states. They faced 100 years of domestic terrorism (up to and including torture, death, and the slaughter of entire communities) against their loved ones at the hands of the KKK. Political policy at the state level ensured they weren't given their equal rights through Jim Crow laws. "Separate but equal" was a lie that deprived generations of black people a good education through walling them off to intentionally underfunded black schools. Separate but equal enforced the idea that blacks weren't equal to their white counterparts—a fact that got enshrined in united states law thanks to racist lawmakers and judges of the era.
Separate but equal was abolished by Brown v. Board, but still states refused to desegregate. In fact,
It wasn't until 2015 that the last school in the US finally desegregated. Over 60 years after you claim events supposedly ended.
The civil rights movement of the 1960s came as a fight by black people to claim the rights and protections granted to them by the constitution. The civil rights act of 1964 was passed, yet blacks were still not granted equal rights and still are not granted equal rights today.
Racist lawmakers and people in power had to get more subtle since they couldn't overtly discriminate. And they did.
Did you know the
NRA supported gun control in CA because the black panthers were open carrying?
Marijuana criminalization in the 70s has a
very racist background that was also done as a means of clamping down on antiwar protestors. This leads to the war on drugs, which
looking over the statistics likens it to a new era of Jim Crow as it is again used as a front to target and incarcerate blacks at a greater proportion than whites—and blacks are often sentenced to harsher penalties than their white counterparts. The war on drugs is only recently coming to an end as states push for marijuana legalization and the rise of of the opiate crisis has shifted the drug problem from that of one that needs punishment to one that needs treatment.
And you still see racism creeping into politics today.
Just this year alone, 17 states so far have passed stricter voting laws despite having no evidence of fraud to justify their passing. In fact, the lead lawyer spreading claims of fraud has a
defense going where she basically admits she's full of it.
There's no election-altering levels of fraud, but there are very real election problems happening. Namely gerrymandering,
Republicans putting up shell candidates that cost a democrat the senate seat, and the seating of justice Amy Coney Barrett despite the her situation being similar (in fact, even worse) than the one that prevented Obama's pick, Merrick Garland, from being seated.
I doubt you followed the
US census shenanigans last year, which were a last ditch attempt by former US president Trump to skew the census reporting to under represent demographics that don't typically vote republican. Time will tell if it worked.
And let's not forget the
Trump Administration let covid rampage because it affected democrat leaning states early on. Look over the way the Trump admin handled covid and you can very clearly see this theme in the actions the trump admin took.
Hell, going back to the election fraud claims (which were only challenged in swing states), even if there had been fraud, a majority of americans, over 7 million (by the popular vote), would have had their votes disenfranchised if Trump were installed in office—the overwhelming majority of which would have been low income/minority voters. The very fact that we don't use the popular vote to determine the president instead of this convoluted system of electorates we have generally deprives blacks and other minority groups of their vote given that
no republican has won the popular vote in their first term since HW Bush in 1988, yet we've had 12 years of republican presidencies since then.
The racism is very much still alive today. It's just gotten easier for racist lawmakers to put up excuses as a cover. I could write a lot more, I only touched on the glaringly obvious examples of the systemic racism issues going on. You can find thousands more by merely opening a history book or consulting with organizations like the ACLU or the NAACP.