What are structural, institutional and systemic racism?

What is structural? What is institutional racism? What is systemic racism? We explain the definition and also look into examples that impact people of color including African Americans.

[jaysilva]

Most the comments are completely missing the point. The whole purpose of explaining these types of racisms is to provide context as to why black people specifically are doing worse as a demographic in almost every socioeconomic factor. There aren't any laws that openly discriminate against black people but the laws of the past have had marginalized effects that still last today.

I can't believe this is going over your guys heads.

[janieswanson]

Institutional racism: Constitution of Liberia Article 27 b. "In order to preserve, foster and maintain the positive Liberian culture, values and character, only persons who are Negroes or of Negro descent shall qualify by birth or by naturalization to be citizens of Liberia."

[kickinrocks]

I'd like to hear more people talk about the Uyghur Genocide. I think a million people being held, and becoming "no longer with us" in internment camps in khina, is just slightly important.

[maxoblivion]

The causes of many of the inequities in social outcomes that are present in our society aren't easily identified or understood. Systemic racism is implied racism. It's the term used to explain the unexplainable. Racism "must" exist because inequities exist. Unfortunately, we can't eliminate racism if we can't first identify it. Systemic racism isn't a concept that helps us do that.

[raul]

thomas sowells book "discrimination and disparities" literally gives the answers to all of these questions with deep historical context, data and evidence

[madddieJehovah]

how come videos that talk about racism have the most dislike even if the video is fact-based

[CrowdPleeza]

Systemic racism exists because racist people exists.

Those racist people will get jobs where they can decide who can or can't get certain jobs and promotions. Who can or can't get a loan etc. The question is how widespread is systemic racism? That question is where people seem to differ.

[shadowki]

Structural, institutional, and systemic racism tend to maintain negative generational effects.

[ellerygee]

this video is very informative but why is the music so ominous 💀💀

[no]

*Leaving out Asian Americans as per usual*

[nnammada]

When I was arrested and charged, I was denied bail and told by my lawyers that if I did not plead guilty I could be sitting in jail waiting longer for a trial date than the amount of time that they were seeking and that I could be given twice the amount of time or more for not taking "responsibility " if found guilty at trial.

So due to those circumstances, I pled guilty knowing that I was innocent, because I didn't want to sit in jail waiting longer for a trial date than the time they were seeking, especially when prison Conditions can be cruel and unusual and trial dates can be unreasonably delayed and convictions can be wrongful and appeals can be often denied.

I pled guilty knowing I was innocent because I did not want to deal with the stress, fear, frustration, malice, or the confusion caused by systemic racism.

I pled guilty knowing that Elizabeth May Terry (lizzie terry) made false allegations in order to steal twenty-three thousand dollars of furniture and electronics from me in retaliation for cheating with her sister

As a victim of systemic racism you do not committ crimes, you just suffer the consequences of crimes like an innocent bystander.

Systemic racism made me the victim look like the criminal and the actual criminal look like the victim. Even when you tell the truth they will make you out to to be the liar and then make the actual liar out to be the one telling the truth.

They will pick sides without knowing the truth or without seeking the truth, and then concoct or make whatever side they think they can make look like the truth.

Everything you say or do they use against you especially in the court of law where everyone in positions of authority are white or have to answer directly or indirectly to someone white. That's white supremacy. Racism, that has been perfected and systematized.

I do not need anyone to tell me that I'm innocent when I know that I am innocent. The video proves I'm innocent. The same video that the judge refused to watch.

I pled guilty knowing that I did not committ any offense, knowing that I was innocent, just to get out of jail and they knew that. Now that I'm out, I take that guilty plea right back. I giveth, therefore I taketh.

I shouldn't have went to jail in the first place. They will lock you up, ruin your life, take everything from you, then release you with nothing. That's racism. They didn't have to lock me up when they knew they was eventually going to release me. They could have released me from the beginning.

[UsingDataResponsibly]

I hope that you will consider revising this messaging to include American Indians and Alaska Natives

[motorbikeray]

The problem is not 'system racism', which does not exist in 2021. The problem is the Black sub-culture that refers to African Americans who elevate themselves through higher education and the proper use of grammar as "Uncle Tom", "Oreo", and "White-washed". The Black sub-culture uses people like Cardi B as a role model instead of Thomas Sowell.

[bluesharkmadness]

A good example of institutional racism is Article 153 of the Federal Constitution of Malaysia which even has Article 10(4) to make it illegal to question Article 153 in Parliament. Both of these had made it perfectly legal for the Bumiputera majority to gain more access to quality education, home ownership and others regardless of socioeconomic status and best of all, the non-Bumiputera minorities cannot even question it.

[DoctorBGify]

Racism means discriminating people based on their ethnicity (races, actually, don't exist). So, it conveys an INTENTION. When this is structural or systemic, that means it's so subtle that one barely notices it, making it possible to shape our culture and our institutions almost forever.

That said, your data don't prove systemic racism actually exists. It only shows how non-whites are at a disadvantage in quality of life terms when compared to whites. Of course we can derive it from the past: slavery, Jim Crow laws, etc. It's clear from those laws that society once WAS racist as a whole. But it's not enough to prove it remains today. You'd have to go further: you have to prove a clear INTENTION to keep things this way. Can you make a compelling case that our institutions maintain non-whites at a disadvantage PRECISELY BECAUSE THEY ARE NON-WHITES? Are there laws, unconscious biases or veiled intentions to harm people based solely on their ethnicity? It's very difficult to say it. The answer depends much more on your perception than actual data.

1) I believe it has much more to do with culture, wealth and other factors than race.

2) We might be oversimplifying the discussion by putting it on a black x white perspective only. What about asians, and Latinos? What about racism among whites or blacks themselves?

[RB-rvyc]

You guys were once the best news program in the Bay Area but now it's more about a narrative about being woke

[handsoffsnaky]

Do people really believe this? If I look deep enough, it’s more of systemic discrimination against poverty. I worked at McDonald’s for three years, got a job at Sears after that. Now make over $100k a year. What’s really holding people back? Are they confined to these “zones”?

[chirazbenabdelkader]

Interesting that there more than half dislikes as likes. What's there to dislike?

[thunkjunk]

Structural, institutional and systemic racism is the perception that everything that happens is a trickle down of some kind of racist event in the past. For example, if a black person is arrested for a crime, it is because of systemic racism; it isn't truly that individuals reponsibility. Or, many black families are broken, fathers in prison or dead, kids not finishing high school or college, mother has drug dealer boyfriend, etc. But it is because of the perception that everthing that happens is a trickle down of some kind of racist event in the past.

[altela]

A true example of systemic racism - Canada's INDIAN ACT?

The INDIAN ACT reduced Canada's Aboriginal peoples to legal status as minors. Therefore the Ottawa government of Canada set up a system of apartheid against the First Nations. This discriminatory system must be considered as systemic racism since it is based on laws and principles consciously developed and accepted by the majority of citizens even today. This reality, unworthy of a country that calls itself evolved, largely determines the troubled relations that have existed between Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals since 1876.

An example of discrimination resulting from this law: The INDIAN ACT does not confer any property rights on the Native people since it is impossible for them to buy the lands in the reserves, this one being the exclusive property of the Crown, Crown which belongs to the British Monarchy to which King Charles III was recently elected non-democratically, in office by blood ties only. This state of affairs therefore limits the ability of Aboriginal people to borrow and reduces their financial autonomy. They have different rights from other citizens simply because of their Aboriginal status. This form of segregation is a blatant demonstration of systemic racism.