Ok, institutional racism and inequality is a real and big problem in the US. Please give us 5 bulletpoints on how would YOU solve these issues. You can be creative.
I've put this off for a while cause I haven't had the time to put down the effort to respond. First of all I'm not an academic in any sense but from the arguments I've heard here are 4 "bulletpoints" in no particular order, that would make sense to me. (I know you asked for 5)
1. Get people more involved in the political process, currently it would seem to me from what I've read that the voting population in local elections is mostly old white people that don't represent the ideals of the broder population and since local government is in charge of for example appointing police chiefs, which makes them very important elections to take part in, furthermore if more people took part in the process it would give more legitimacy in my opinion to the protest should local politicians continue to select shitty police chiefs even after the broder electorate would participate.
2. Put more pressure through incentives for companies to hire more multiculturaly. I know this is definantly not popular with white people who argue for individualism and the market place will always select fairly based on whoever is most suited for the job based on experience and education etc. Unfortunaley this does not seem to be the case currently, mostly due to inherit bias. I also believe that if corporations would be more diverse they could probably be better at targeting more minorities in marketing etc making it benificial for the economy for companies to hire more diversly.
3. Putting through legislation that hinders banks from treating people differntly based on race. Currently banks are less likely to give out fair loans to black people then whites.
4. Minor point decriminalizing cannabis use on a federal level and continue to pressure states to legalize it. Currently incarceration due to cannabis use has been affecting minorities more then whites and there's no reason to keep people in prison due to cannabis use. I'd personally go even further and argue for the decriminalization for all drug use, but I don't think that would be achievable currently. I personally believe it's an addiction that would be more efficently solved through rehablitation then incarceration and it only inflicts the person addicted. Now if you commit crimes that does affect others to fuel your addiction like break ins etc then you should obviously be punished for those but not the addiction in of itself.
Here's a 5th and 6th that I'm kind of on the fence about the HR 40 bill, and the idea of censoring names on school applications.
Since there has been some studies showing black people being less likely to be selected purely based on their names.
I haven't read much into this one though so I'm unaware of any unwanted side effects this might cause.
(Sorry for poor grammar English isn't my first language but I think I still got my points across, tell me if you need me to clarify something.)
