Do Europeans actually believe that the main problem with Blacks in the US is racism?
Do people understand systemic injustice, and what coming from being a nation of slaves merely 150 years ago, and having legal injustice until merely 40 years ago and implicit injustice until today can do to a people?
However all of them were white, educated (a lot of them highly educated), and managed to migrate to places where they fit with white society and were not persecuted for being jews anymore. Blacks didn't have that.
>The roots may be from Jim Crow and such but the lack of progress is disheartening and seemingly intractable.
Well, lack of progress is relative. From just-freed slaves, peniless and uneducated, now there is a decent black middle class.
But if your grantparents were dead poor (think Jim Crow blacks in the South in the 20's and 40's), then you don't get to jump that far in a 3 generations.
Especially if your father had to face discrimination (in schooling, hiring, loans etc) up until the seventies or even more.
Latinos have the same problems.
Jews, Italians, Irish not so much -- they started from much better position than slaves, and they are white so could fit in to business etc better. Besides they didn't originate from places like Alabama, Mississippi, like most of blacks who migrated North did etc -- they came to NY, Chicago etc.
I think that most problems faced by black people in the US are a result of racism. Sometimes that's overt direct racism. Sometimes it's institutional racism. Sometimes it's the end result of years of policies that had racist origins.
I would call it racism, because the term expanded to be about more than just color of skin. I do not think about it in a redneck-raises-confederate-flag-and-points-shotgun-at-black-sense either but more in the way key points of society like education are structured.
I think you are letting your hate get the better of you, which is not an attractive quality for a German.
If you do this again I'm going to ban your account.
Racists still enjoy sports. For them blacks athletes are like circus acts or monkeys performing for them -- they even have their favorites.
For me the difference is, that I live in the most dangerous city in Germany (statistic inflated due to giant airport) and would still walk through every street here at any time. I do not think that I would do the same in some parts of LA. So maybe my understanding of LA is a bit cartoonish - and granted you do not walk in LA anyway.
But they really aren't. There are more murders per capita in a quiet little town like Long Beach (CA) than in Naples (Italy).
Unfortunately that appears to work both ways.
The reason I do not plan to visit is because of that image about gun-totin', mentally unstable nation out of touch with reality with bizarre and secret laws which are in the worst case enforced by trigger-happy people with less than 5 months of training. Terrifying. But you aren't actually safe from them in a different continent either: attending to a wedding in Mid East can be lethal...
That's just classism, which is as bad as racism or xenophobia.
> different culture|religion|sexuality
Also inexcusable
> lower level of education
Which typically happens as a result of racism
> unpleasant behavior or physical appearance
Caused by poverty, which was caused by racism
Depends on the kind of classism (and the direction) -- because upper classes DO have power, money, etc, and it's not some basic human right or morality to believe that they should.
Else, we can describe anything with an "ism" and say it's bad. "You hate murderers? That's antimurderism".