What is systemic racism?

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Mr. Beat explains what systemic racism is and why it exists. He also debunks systemic racism deniers like Larry Elder, Dave Rubin, and Ben Shapiro.

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Here's an annotated script with footnotes:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t6BMIaXgv2TuWae5XZVTl_maibqTKn3sehcqLfxZ_Wk/edit?usp=sharing

Sources/further reading:
Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools by Jonathan Kozol
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
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One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy
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Dark Alliance by Gary Webb
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https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GLOBAL-RACE/USA/nmopajawjva/
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN24I29S/
https://www.npr.org/2021/01/25/956177021/fatal-police-shootings-of-unarmed-black-people-reveal-troubling-patterns
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/12/15/u-s-public-school-students-often-go-to-schools-where-at-least-half-of-their-peers-are-the-same-race-or-ethnicity/
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/14/1111060299/school-segregation-report
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/african-americans-face-systematic-obstacles-getting-good-jobs/
https://reason.com/volokh/2021/04/24/race-and-violent-crime/
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/more-than-100-us-political-leaders-have-ancestors-who-were-slaveholders-2023-06-27/
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01466
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/annual-report-shows-systemic-racism-continues-to-bring-down-black-peoples-quality-of-life
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/885878564/what-systemic-racism-means-and-the-way-it-harms-communities
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-united-states-history-of-segregated-housing-continues-to-limit-affordable-housing/
https://bgordh.medium.com/more-deadly-than-caste-13db491c6ba7
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/02/03/black-voting-rights-15th-amendment-still-challenged-after-150-years/4587160002/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/fire-in-the-ashes-twenty-five-years-among-the-poorest-children-in-america/2012/09/28/e3d89f30-018e-11e2-9367-4e1bafb958db_story.html
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3798897-five-challenges-black-voters-want-tackled-in-2023/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/native-americans-property-rights/492941/
https://www.becu.org/blog/barriers-to-indigenous-wealth
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/089533002760278686
https://web.archive.org/web/20130628135832/http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/562463/ra174h_1_.pdf

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
8:03 Ground News
9:47 How systemic racism is real
11:10 6 examples of systemic racism
16:20 Poverty & the Momentum of History
17:46 What caused systemic racism?
24:50 Why systemic racism won't go away
34:06 Conclusion

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