"Addressing systematic racism" is quite the euphemism for an outright racist policy, choosing winners and losers over what long-dead people with the same skin c

"Addressing systematic racism" is quite the euphemism for an outright racist policy, choosing winners and losers over what long-dead people with the same skin color did before we were born. The best way to "address racism" is to treat people like individual human beings with equal dignity, agency, and responsibility. The now-pervasive victimhood narrative is one of the most socially destructive forces in America. It's an us vs. them, rich vs. poor, black vs. white narrative that feeds on that insidious emotion, envy, and pits people against each other. And there's this often-explicit assumption that the biggest thing holding back minorities is the white man. Nothing could be further from the truth today. The biggest problems faced by poor minorities are outrageous levels of violent crime among themselves, widespread illegitimacy, family collapse, and broken cultures that value the wrong things. Many groups have thrived against all odds throughout history, and they sure didn't get ahead with victimhood politics. The story of the Jews always comes to mind. Persecuted for over two thousand years, they not only survived but thrived in some of the most hostile environments possible, like repeated mass expulsions from different European countries, culminating but not ending with the Holocaust. When they got Israel, they quickly made it the richest, freest, and most powerful country in the region, by far. I also want to reiterate my point from my earlier comment, which I don't think you responded to, that this kind of feel-good policy-making comes back to bite us. It hurts the taxpayer today by using up more of his money to provide the same service, and it hurts him tomorrow by obscuring what the real costs are and perpetuating bad decision making. The creeping inefficiencies become a permanent dead weight on our ability to invest elsewhere or weather a debt crunch. If we want to have social programs that give minorities a leg up, then let's vote on those and forthrightly decide what portion of our national income we are willing to put that end. Hidden welfare for well-off minorities isn't the right way to do it.