Fair Argument Against 'Systemic Racism'.

I hope you enjoyed :-)

Content is taken from Coleman Hughes' interview on the Rubin Report ~ Link below:

[TheProcrastinator]

This is true. I am a Jamaican living in America. And Jamaicans are taught how important education is from the day they enter school life it is an emphasis. "Education is better than silver and gold".

[shaktishaker]

The best way to enslave someone is to teach them that they are a victim

[zayinghui]

It’s funny how the most intelligent most accomplished and most brilliant black people say that you can do anything, there’s no one out to get you, the mysterious systematic racism is not there. But people don’t want to hear that because it takes hard work, culture change, and a huge amount of self belief.

[hanklesacks]

I refuse to let anyone tell me i’m a victim, it’s a repulsive mindset.

[roomgrowrose]

I am one of those children, child of Jamaican mother, and he is spot on. I never thought my race would hold me back. It was NEVER a conversation in my house.

[ivanwong]

Joe Biden be like: This guy ain't black

[watchthe]

I remember a black college coach chewing out one of his kids in front of me "Never EVER hide behind your skin. That is no excuse for anything you fail at. Figure out a way around the obstacle be it animal, racist asshole, vegetable, or mineral. Do not blame, just find out what you can and cannot do because of your own talents and limits. NO ONE else's"

[rayboish]

As Thomas Sowell once said " you dont even get equal outcomes from siblings in the same family let alone cultural group "
It's

[JareBearAraujo]

I have a friend from the Congo. He immigrated to Nigeria as a child and eventually ended up in the USA. He said he has never been treated so bad than when he was in Nigeria. He said the Nigerians discriminated against them since they were from the Congo. He said his father always worked hard and instilled those values in him and his siblings and doesn’t understand the claims of “racism” in the USA as he has always been treated well here.

[johnbravo]

This is what we need; educated discussions rather than emotionally-based rants.

[perspectiveflip]

"You're responsible for your own success"

HOW DARE YOU

[tpatt]

So if I had to be honest. I'm African American and my wife is Jamaican first generation. We constantly have the difference on upbringing between my family and hers. Her Outlook is black people are lost and she was raised to believe no one is better than you. I can't say for sure but I feel she and this guy has a point if I was being objective.

[blankblankpog]

Dr. Thomas Sowell is so based. He graduated from Harvard and Columbia during segregation.
He should've been Black's role model

[monkeytrollhunter]

Isn't it pathetic that we have to spend so much time explaining something that should be self-explanatory because politically interested people will just simply ignore or twist the facts out of convenience, in order to fit their political narrative?

[samchoi]

Who else is annoyed by social media “educators” who do not do research but force a very narrow perspective on “systemic racism”. They often shut down people who share different pov . I don’t think they understand what teaching really means. This video is great. Hope those “educators” find this....

[guershondorismond]

As black person who is in their late twenties and is the 1st generation of carribbean born parents, I've been fortunate to get a wide variety of perspectives that most black people won't ever get exposed to, or are conscience of. From my experiences black culture has a lot of toxic habits (rap culture, glorification of athletes and artists, sex, and single parenthood) that are destructive to their success.

I have now watched. People i have grown up with go down all sorts of paths. People getting addicted to weed, people go to jail, people have kids and end up on welfare, people go to college and work in fast food, people progress slowly, and people succeed. The biggest predictor of success that I have seen is from the people who went to college (for something useful), don't do drugs, or have kids. These things contradict the main stream norms in black society, but are crucial to increasing odds of success

[BRBallin]

He's only 24 yet more mature than 99.9% of the population

[michelletravelsyt]

So I’m still left confused and maybe someone here who shares the same opinion as the guy in the video can educate me.
Wouldn’t it make way more sense to compare West Indian immigrants to white people rather than their African American counterparts to figure out if systematic racism really is an issue ?
I moved to the states for a few years myself and of course I was „better off“ compared to an actual American who was black as The Whole generational trauma part didn’t apply to me ?

If you argue that African Americans don’t put enough emphasis on education and that is essentially what is causing them to fall back, aren’t you also arguing FOR institutionalized racism as in the US Property taxes fund schools and richer neighborhoods pay more property taxes.( at least in New Jersey, where I lived during my time in the states, I’m not sure if this applies for all states) Those same rich neighborhoods are majority white and surprise surprise, looking back you will find that that is due to racist policies in the not so far past. In summary, black families were kept out of wealthy neighborhoods for generations forcing them to settle in poor neighborhoods where the schools are underfunded making it significantly harder to get a quality education, that making it near impossible to find a good job, making it impossible to move out of said shitty neighborhoods. Rinse and repeat for a couple generations. Now a black immigrant of a different nationality may move into the same shitty neighborhoods at first and their kids will go to the same shitty underfunded school, but won’t share the same history. The parents of the 2nd generation American child will be more educated and driven, as the gentleman in the interview even argued himself, because, even though they will have had their own struggles, they weren’t broken down by a system that was built to make their life significantly harder ? So the kids are more likely to succeed ?? To me that’s not an argument against institutional and systematic racism. To me the video is very surface level and not looking at the entirety and complexity of the issue. I’m super open and curious to hear other opinions on this as long as they are communicated in a respectful manner. I genuinely want to understand this argument.

[bloodyconstraint]

Culture is always the most influential factor in group and also individual outlook. The resultant set of expectations is the primary driver of social potential.

[alomode]

“Things become problems if you let them”
-me