Is a Karen showing concern for someone other than herself even a Karen anymore?

Not the right place to set the goalposts.

When racist attitudes are broadly held, particularly by those in power, then it’s systemic.

In concrete terms, this manifests in underinvestment (public and private) in black communities, and incidents of police misconduct, to name just a couple things.

Much depends on the mindsets of those with whom we’ve entrusted with discretion to act under the color of law — or those who control the flows of capital.

Racism is a lot more pervasive than your racist uncle telling an n-word joke.

Not exactly what entices private investment.

Cheap sources of labor are always valuable to companies. But if you don’t pay them enough: Not enough consumer spending to support a vibrant local economy.

The lack of consumer dollars chasing goods and services in deprived neighborhoods is a bigger factor than protests that erupt sporadically and can be insured against.

But don’t tell the rioters about your theory though: they might get ideas and start looting rich neighborhoods rather than their nearest Target.

Then all the boutique outlets would move to the hood!

Cheap sources are valuable, but not in and of themselves alone. Labor cost is merely one input in a myriad of considerations businesses examine when determining where to operate. Regulations, taxation, cost of land, etc all are important.

But I understand your over simplification, you've never run a business or employed anyone in your life.

Funny how racism existed last week with respect to Biden but it took a nap when this occurred

Yet you're ignoring the THREE OTHER COPS ON THE SCENE WHO WERE ALL MINORITIES

Bahaha I know this will come as a shock: but Asians can be racist against blacks as well

Mind blown yet?

Either way: those bystander cops didn’t actually stamp the knee on Floyd’s neck, nor did they really seem capable of such an atrocity given their dumbfounded expressions.

They strike me more as poster children for the concept of the banality of evil

https://www.google.com/amp/s/aeon.co/amp/ideas/what-did-hannah-arendt-really-mean-by-the-banality-of-evil

But anything is possible I suppose

Maybe they would have done such a thing in time, but now they’re fired and hopefully will never wear a badge and uniform again.

You're simplistic mind is sad. The cop is white, the victim is black. It must be racism. Has to be.

Logic...wait for it.....FAIL.

Do you know the cop had racist motivation? What evidence do you have of that?

Let me help you, if you have no other evidence aside from the color of cop and victims skin, then are ascribing racist motivations to the cop, which operates on the racist assumption that white cops are racist.

Meanwhile, we KNOW WHAT BIDEN SAID. What he said was incredibly racist.

I can’t think of any better motivation that would cause a person to think it’s okay to stamp out someone’s life like a dog in the street in the middle of broad daylight like that

But who knows: Maybe the officer was just having a bad day?

Wrong side of the bed?

Something in his coffee?

So we have established you have no evidence.

Great! Congratulations on setting racial motivations on someone you don't know, based on nothing else other than the color of their skin.

Congratulations, that's racist.

Other than the fact a white officer snuffed out the life of a totally helpless and indeed handcuffed black suspect using wildly incorrect protocol and in spite of the suspect's protestations that he couldn't breathe

Yep, other than that, no evidence

Again, you keep reiterating MY POINT.

Let help your small mind.

Your judgement is based solely on skin color.

Kyliefan: You can't judge people by the color of their skin

Also Kyliefan: the only evidence I have and need is the color of the cops skin.

The color of the skin of the assailant and victim is indeed relevant.

Hard to talk about racism without talking about race.

YOU DON'T KNOW ITS RACISM

f**k you are beyond dumb. Your assuming it's racism based on nothing but skin color.

In effect you're postulating that any time two people of other races have a conflict, the underlying cause is racism.

That's absurd.

You're an idiot.

If we can confirm with evidence beyond what the skin color is, that racism is at play here, fine, until then, it's irrational to conclude it's racism.

As I stated above, the skin color is one factor along with the tremendous breaches of protocol here and ignoring the "I can't breathe."

What the hell causes a person to do that?

Was the donut shop out of his favorites that day?

Not all racists have racist manifestos hiding out on their hard drives that they post to 8Chan 10 minutes before embarking on their killing spree.

This is beyond tiresome. You keep the same ignorant claim with zero evidence.

Bahahaha

"When racist attitudes are broadly held, particularly by those in power, then it’s systemic."

Yet you point to no "racist attitudes" and you don't untangle how "attitudes" translate to "systemic".

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/588067/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2016/7/25/12270880/donald-trump-racist-racism-history

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5d2f57aee4b085eda5a5ccec?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAZ_pIp8LMwAllughKyO5aafyO-DU7Ccp6C92sLyfwfjEuzuoRiJ1g1NRhJ9p7TWXMkoqOc--CM72g-jHNfTEve_nyUVhRHHxe5Kd7BD2zBFobdnjLqWGrGaX_Cr8x6W3YlHpCJnwJ5lIvsuGR0fJoab1Zh20wt8Nh2joG86aask

Start here

(You’ll object to these liberal sources no doubt, but I can’t seem to find an article from Breitbart or Fox News or Zero Hedge collecting Trump’s racism over decades. Let me know if you find one)

Also, most recently: “looting, shooting” etc. Twitter comments literally lifted from the lips of a racist late-1960s Miami police chief.

(Not proper protocol, by the way, or else major cities across the country right now would be Tiananmen Square-like bloodbaths)

When such attitudes are not only held and expressed in public by the President but continually defended, downplayed, and explained away by his supporters, it’s not difficult to see how that filters down.

How exactly? You could fill books with theorizing. It’s a complex subject.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism

Here’s more reading. Sometimes subtle, sometimes overt, racism is with us today.

Heck, we know this because just last week we found out (according to many right-wing memes I saw) that Joe Biden is a racist even though he served as a VP to our first black President and garnered a huge amount of the black primary vote.

If Joe Biden is racist then what hope do the rest of us have?

Again, you have simply regurgitated issues that have been examined by society and determined to be irrelevant to Trumps ability to serve as President.

Further, you have ignored the deaths of black Americans at the hands of cops when Obama was President. It's ludicrous to say, that because Trump is President that's evidence of "systemic oppression" and ignore the similar outcomes under a black President. It's also funny you brought up Biden and him not being racist because he served as Obama's VP, but you ignore your own metric what qualifies as "attitudes leading to systemic oppression". Biden's history as a legislator is awful on race issues. Of course on you would claim that Trump is a racist and ignore Biden and therefore your own logic that Biden's racism is endemic of the very oppression you claim exist. Let me help you, if you're going to say systemic oppression exist because of attitudes of those in positions of power you can't then ignore and dismiss the very standard you set.

Lastly, you haven't explained how you're perception of Trump being a racist translates to any policy that supports systemic racism or how Trump has anything to do with a police force in a city lead solely by Democrats, in a state which has voted Democrat since the 1930s.

This is a joke, as are you.