Thoughts On a Capitalist Country In Regards to Race (In Response to a posed question - Is Systemic Racism a Myth?)

The United States is a capitalist country. Capitalism is color blind. It is about personal responsibility and choices. If this country is so systemically racist in favor of white people, you wouldn’t think that Asians would have a greater median household income than whites, but they do. You wouldn’t think that the US would have elected a black president, but this country did.

Race has literally zero factor in your ability to lead a successful life. Success is about choices, and that’s why so many people immigrated here: to make a better life for themselves through their personal actions and hard work! Accusing an ethnic group with a collective crime is incredibly racist, and takes personal responsibility out of the equation entirely. By saying this country is systemically racist, you are accusing anyone who is white as being a racist just because they aren’t part of a minority group. That makes no sense. There’s no way to prove everyone in an ethnic group is racist - systemic racism blames every problem in society on racism, which is a stupid argument. Take the Kulaks in the 1920s in Soviet union for example, and the consequences that can occur for targeting an ethnic group of a collective crime. Sure there are racist people, but this country as a whole isn’t racist.

It is a gift to live in the United States. It is a gift to live in a free, capitalist society. It only makes issues more unnecessarily complicated when problems that have nothing to do with skin color are blamed on racism.