“Some argue that as long as institutional decision-makers are not racist or discriminatory, things will work themselves out. The effects of 400 years of discrimination will just “wash away”, like dirty trash on a beach front. Sorry, it doesn’t work that way. Saying that institutionalized racism will just “work itself out” is like saying that if you remove your foot from the gas of a moving car, the car will start moving backward. That’s not the way things work. America has a broad social, economic and educational infrastructure which was developed to support and sustain the dominance of White males over everyone else. Americans who support such systems do not have to inject additional racism into the system, for the system has been getting injections for the past 400 years. All they have to do to maintain the racial disparity caused by the system is to do what they do today: support the system, defend the system, believe in the system and fight for the system. That keeps racism alive.”
This is an excerpt from the forthcoming book “Black American Money: How Black People can Thrive in Capitalist America”, set to be released July 15, 2009
