First, let me start by clearly stating my thesis.  The demonstrations themselves DISPROVE the idea of systemic racism.  The argument made by those in the streets is that the country is hopelessly and systemically racist.  That level of racism is expressed even to the extreme of letting a black man die and not valuing his life the same as a life of a person with different skin color.  Based on what we have seen in the streets, that is just not True.
 
Almost every major corporation in the country has reached out to make some form of solidarity with the protestors and agreeing that the country is racist.  Almost every major celebrity.  I have seen one CEO have to resign because he didn’t create an “anti-racist” culture.  When something bad happens to a person of color you can get almost half the country to put up a black screen on their Facebook page.   In the face of looting in the streets, being assaulted, hit with bricks, corrosive liquids, being spit on, shot at, killed, etc. do you see some roving band of police officers out there where they could justifiably hurt hundreds of people they are accused of hating?  No. 
 
When a white supremacist group has 50 people meet in a hotel room there is more press showing up to talk about how evil they are than people in attendance.  When they try to march down the street, they are (rightfully) denounced as racists and shouted down.  Richard Spencer, David Duke, Etc.  These guys are punch lines.  Who among them can get any kind of sit down or access to mainstream conservative culture?  None of them.  I’m a millennial, to those in my generation, did anyone in your high school class actually think white nationalism was cool?  Mine didn’t!    
 
This is a fallen world.  Unfortunately, bad things can happen to anyone.  There can come a time when anyone can befall the tyranny of evil men.  The fact that there are some in society that prey on the innocent is no more an indictment on society than the actions of one person are an indictment against their race!  When George Floyd passed away there was universal condemnation of the tactics used.  There were universal cries for those who perpetrated the crime to face justice.  Is that really a system that does not value people of color?  The same system that elected the Black Attorney bringing justice in the case?  Do you really believe that?  Was ANYONE making the argument “hey, he’s not one of us…  he got what he deserves!”  “Hey, he might not have been doing anything then, but you know THOSE PEOPLE would have done something eventually?”
 
But jj, that could only happen to a black Man.  Anyone who thinks that, go search for the video of Tony Tempa.   I’m sorry, but as an AMERICAN I don’t have anything to apologize for!

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