Attorney General William Barr stunned viewers Wednesday when he said that it’s not necessarily racism when police repeatedly treat Black people differently than white people. “I think there are some situations where statistics would suggest that they are treated differently, but I don’t think that that’s necessarily racism,” Barr said. Perplexed, Wolf asked, “But doesn’t that sound like systemic racism?” Barr began nitpicking the language: “No. To me, the word systemic means that it’s built into the institution.”What the attorney general acknowledged to be true is, in fact, systemic racism. The lingering effects of those practices are what fuel the racism Black Americans face today, sometimes directly costing them their lives.

Source: Huffington Post September 02, 2020 23:15 UTC