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African immigrants doing well would not mean there’s not structural racism. Africans don’t have a monopoly on racism to begin with.
by endisneigh 4y ago
African immigrants doing well would not mean there’s not structural racism. Africans don’t have a monopoly on racism to begin with.
- prepend 4y agoI think it would mean that the bias isn’t based on race (so having an intervention based solely on race wouldn’t correct the problem) but on based on prejudice on historical race or being subject to discrimination. So perhaps it’s not discrimination due to race that causes harm as long-term generational discrimination based on race. It may seem insignificant in that it’s not racism now that’s the problem, but racism then. But, again, if the goal is to increase equity in STEMM then we want to properly design interventions.
- endisneigh 4y ago"African" is not the only race, a single counterexample is not sufficient to say there's no structural racism.
- prepend 4y agoI’m not arguing that structural racism doesn’t exist. I’m arguing that saying there is structural racism against Black people is not generalizable to all Black people as there are some people with black skin from Africa that don’t have the measurable disparity as other people with black skin. If anything, I think there should be more precise interventions to reduce structural racism.