Structural racism is just an excuse for decades of Democratic rule
Zachary Faria
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Democrats, legacy media figures, and “experts” will jump through hoops to find some phantom form of racism to blame for the issues black people face in Democrat-run cities rather than acknowledge that the people actually in charge of those cities have failed for decades.
The latest example of this comes from researchers at Tulane University, who published their study on mass shootings in major U.S. metropolitan areas in JAMA Surgery, a journal published by the American Medical Association. According to CNN, “The study found that in areas with higher black populations, mass shootings are likelier to occur compared to communities with higher white populations. There are also more black people injured and killed when mass shootings take place.”
The researchers then claimed this was the result of “structural racism,” which they said is “the normalized and legitimized range of policies, practices, and attitudes that routinely produce cumulative and chronic adverse outcomes for people of color.” They then said that surgeons, yes surgeons, can prevent these shootings by combating “the influence of structural racism on gun violence on a grander scale.”
Does any of this liberal gobbledygook mean anything substantive? Who is to say? What we do know is that “the most reliable indicator of violent crime in a community is the proportion of fatherless families,” according to the Justice Department. We know that fatherlessness is an issue that disproportionately affects black children. And we know that people are most likely to be killed by people in their communities, meaning the black people who are disproportionately killed in shootings are being killed by black shooters.
That is the basic summary of the problem, but the cultural issues and possible solutions are far more complex. What is not as complex is the common thread in the cities that the study cites as having the biggest issues with “structural racism.” The study focused on a period from 2015 to 2019, where it was determined that Chicago had the most shootings. Milwaukee scored the highest on the “segregation index,” Baltimore had the highest unemployment rate, and Cleveland had the greatest income inequality.
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Chicago’s last Republican mayor left office in 1931. It has been run by Democrats for 92 years. Democrats have run Cleveland since 1989 and Baltimore since 1967. Milwaukee’s last non-Democratic mayor served from 1948 to 1960. He was a member of the Socialist Party.
Just as “environmental racism” was blamed for Democrats in Jackson, Mississippi, ruining the city’s water system, “structural racism” is being used to absolve Democrats of decades of governance in cities where black people are being killed or stuck in poverty. Democrats in these cities have failed black residents, but their allies in media and academia want you to blame vague, invisible concepts of racism rather than decades of terrible policies and lack of attention from the only people that have been put in charge of running these cities.