I feel like this is a few months worth of frustration at things which have nothing to do with me or my article directed at the nearest available target (which happened to be me).

Yes, I'd actually agree, the system, viewed in a snapshot right now, isn't very racist. But the reason for some of the bad outcomes I mention in the article is that it was extraordinarily racist less than a generation ago and people are still trying to recover from that injustice.

Segregation ended in the late 60s, less than 60 years ago. Jim Crow too. Those laws are all gone, but the impact they had, exclusively on black people, are still present. Work needs to be done to right those wrongs.

There's an important discussion to be had about when that work is finished. When do we decide that we're all square? But your discomfort with the fact that we clearly aren't there yet is not a remotely interesting part of that discussion.