I mean, the War on Drugs wasn't incidentally racist. It was intentionally racist. https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/nixon-aide-war-drugs-tool-target-b

I mean, the War on Drugs wasn't incidentally racist. It was intentionally racist. https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/nixon-aide-war-drugs-tool-target-black-people-article-1.2573832 https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/nixon-aide-war-dru... And nominally fair is correct. It's not fair now, but people say that it is. Sure there is stuff left over from past racist policies that impact people. For example Black families on average have 1/10th the wealth of a white family, in large part because of redline mortage practices and other policies that undermined home ownership for black people. But it's also wrong to suggest that everything is fair now, and black people just haven't caught up because of historical injustices. There's still strong evidence of systemic racial bias against Blacks (and Latinx people) in traffic stops, criminal sentencing, resume responses (including controlled experiments with identical resumes save for different names), hiring rates etc. And this is not just statistics in RL, but studies show that people are biased, even if they don't think they are. It's sadly quite easy, if you are white, to not see the issue, and if you don't see it it's easy to think it's not a problem anymore. It's still a huge problem.