Sifting Through Facts

QUESTIONS LIKE "Is The United States a racist country" are of as much interest, and maybe more, to history, sociology, and psychology researchers and professors as anyone else. Most folks seem content to merely express a personal opinion on the matter, without going to all the trouble to actually find out by using research. Academicians prefer the hard work that goes with research, and the demonstrable knowledge, the certainty of results, which comes from all the hard work. Finding out whether racism exists within the criminal justice system, for instance, is very simple, in theory. Simply compare outcomes in law enforcements and in judicial proceedings for white and black defendants. The devil is in the details; accumulating, categorizing, counting millions of cases a year. Bottom line, in America, if you're in trouble with the law, you're a lot better off being white than black, period. Ths history and sociology departments of probably every major university in the world have asked this basic question, done this research, research didctated by circumstances, and arrive atthis conclusion: America, alas, remains a racist country today, having always been one. Arguing with facts is pointless, but of course try telling that to a conservative with a head full of false, dellusional notions like stolen elections, climate change hoax, Covid conspiracy, and so forth. The method is: if you don't like the outcome, simply deny its existence. Thus, Biden's election victory becomes a hoax, a scam, as do climate change, and racism in America; another one of those inconvenient facts about which the far right does not wanto to, and therefore refuses, to hear. And therefores, all across freedom's land, in right wing state after right wing red state, iditic laws are being passed by far right wing fact deniers prohibiting public schools from teaching the truth about racism, past and present, in America. This is tragic and disastrous for the simple reason that racism past and present is a reality in America, a fact, and we must accept facts and reality, not deny them merely because they conflict with our world view. Denal of fact and reality is how primitive, ancient religions remain widespread in a world which no longer has any real usse for them. In America, tens of millions of people continue to delude themselves, about elections results, about climate change, and about the reality of racism, and these delusions are deadly dangerous, and must be opposed at all levels.