Attorney General Bill Barr used a classic racist and sexist strategy yesterday when asked if his policies favor the President. Instead of answering he took each case one by one and discussed his decision in each. So you ask yourself so, how is that racist or sexist? So let’s analyze this taking for example People of color, it works the same for women as well, and for many other groups. One thousand applicants apply for 500 jobs. Of the applicants, 500 are people of whiteness and 500 are equally qualified people of color. Now assume getting the job is like rolling dice. Now because of historic issues, the person of color gets hired if a roll of 5 or 6 occurs. If there is a 1 through 4 the white candidate gets hired. So all 1000 people are processed for the job. They are all asked the same questions and in each case, the employer writes down why they were hired and why they were not hired. You review each case on an individual basis and you say “Ok I guess that was a non-biased decision.” The dice show a number of 1 – 4. In the end, you review the results and all 500 jobs were filled by a person of whiteness. So when you look at each individual decision, you can’t see the racism. But if you think of it, what it means is that a dice was rolled 500 times and there was never a roll of 5 or 6. Try that? Now your look at the whole company and you notice there are no people of color. There has never been a 5 or 6 rolled. This is what is called systemic racism. If you look at each individual case you can’t see it, but when you step back and look it is obvious. So when Barr says let’s look at each case, your like “hmmm” but when you look at the pattern it tells a different story. So what do you do? Well, you grab that dice and you look and guess what? There are no 5 or 6s on that damn dice. So its time to either get new dice, or tear it all the f down.
© words by Daniel DeMarle 6/26/2020
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