Since others are picking apart your argument in the large Ha! No one else has even evidenced reading the post, I applaud you for seeming to have at least read

Since others are picking apart your argument in the large Ha! No one else has even evidenced reading the post, I applaud you for seeming to have at least read it. so they've had much less time to be dragged down by systemic racism. They're not being "dragged down" at all, they're being "pushed up." There is no reason to think that given enough time they will eventually be dragged down. There is not some race in the US conspiring to keep other races down given enough time. I'd imagine any race accussed of such a thing would find it highly offensive. Far be it from me to make the accusation, but there is precedent to say that Asians and Jews are oppressing everyone else in the US because of their greater average income, and because they hold "high prestige" positions in proportionally greater numbers. There is no evidence for societal wide mechanisms keeping particular races down. People looks at measurements, see differences, then try to blame the measuring stick, i.e. society for the differences. the fact that they are lighter of skin tone tends to make them a less targeted group by racist actors. That doesn't even sound like the way people like to imagine "institutional racism." I thought the whole point was that there is no conscious targetting and not anyone particular actor but society as a whole in some fuzzy, unspecified way is to blame. Who is 'we' and what exactly do 'we see'??? I'm dying to know. I don't get this tone here. We is anyone who looks, what we see is similarity in crime rates, test scores, achievement, SES, income, etc. anything people in the US try to ascribe to "institutional racism." Yet we see similar metrics and behavior in countries with different institutional histories, and in the countries where these US minorities originate.