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> I prefer "endemic", because it is baked into the operators of the system...

There was a pandemic of racism that we fought a war over, now we have to pretend it doesn't exist anymore to keep the economy going and 'live our lives'?

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I'm not sure what you mean by that. We certainly didn't fight a war over racism, but instead over chattel slavery and a states right to have that. I do not believe the north was less racist simply because they did not have slaves by the time the civil war broke out.

I also don't understand your "doesn't exist" comment. Racism exists (and we're also seeing the trial of "combat racism by more racism")

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