Steve QJ
1 min readMay 3, 2022

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Uh, source please? Mine and your experience isn't really relevant here. If we're talking about these issues on a societal scale (which is the only meaningful way to talk about them) then your intuitions aren't going to cut it. I'm sure that, just as with anything there are many different reasons why different black people choose to send their children to after school clubs.

And I didn't say that black people (God, I hate the term "blacks") don't think about racism. Again, this would not only be ridiculous as we experienced it, it would make my observation that racism just barely cracked the top 10 strange. Racism is, as that sentence suggests, the 9th highest priority in black people's minds according to the poll.

But as the overwhelming majority of black people aren't in jail for crimes they didn't commit, and the overwhelming majority of black women receive good healthcare and don't die during childbirth, viewing all black people through this lens is both reductive and innacurate.

As for why these things happen, the answer is far more complex that the word "racism." If that's really as far as you've gotten in your analysis, I daresay you're not thinking about these issues as carefully as you should be. Racism is a factor in many issues that affect the black community. Not the singular cause.

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Steve QJ
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