The non-partisan truth about the racial unrest, police brutality, white privilege and institutional racism debates, and solutions for the USA - If it doesn't fit your narrative, too bad! The facts give zero craps about your mind traps!

Was thinking about what folks have been posting on FB recently and hacked out some thoughts: The Myth of White Privilege Societies are set up to naturally benefit the majority through a dominant culture and conventions. The further you step away from this centre the more difficult it becomes to function. Fringe cultures within society, even within an ethnic group, usually have trouble. Traditionally all peopled lived in isolated homogeneous groups. They developed separate languages and culture. Only recently have widely separated cultures become mixed up. The integration problems of minority groups within these mixed up cultures is not necessarily the fault of their neighbours. It's often, especially today, a function of wider circumstances - the decisions of past political leaders or, in some cases, of the immigrants themselves (their decision to move). One should likewise not harp on about the legacy of 'institutionalised racism' coming from the colonial era - that it 'permeates everything'. Times have changed. The policy and actions of past leaders is not the fault of ordinary good willed people living today. And institutions are open to everyone. In fact today's secular society is set up largely as a meritocracy. There is equality of opportunity for all. This truth is born out when you see people struggling against the odds from poor or minority backgrounds making it big in the world. The overriding issue is having poor social skills that stops you from integrating into the wider society and stops you from working hard to make your way. Even people that have poor communication skills, whether it comes from the fact that English is a second language, or through devolved neighbourhoods, can, with the right attitude, learn social skills/responsibility and achieve much (but they have to decide to, or be encouraged to, 'get their shit together'). Despite poor black and white areas in the USA, where the people struggle, individuals have risen above these circumstances. There are plenty of successful black people in the USA including President Obama, Kanye West, Beyoncé, Oprah Winfrey, plus many sports stars and others, including in academia. If US society is still intrinsically and institutionally racist then how did these black people get so far? And why are Asian people the most affluent group in the general population? Asians succeed simply due to the fact they work hard because of a strong family network that encourages a robust work ethic. These key social skills help them go far. However, those that come from broken homes, like what we see most prominently in the black community, tend to have mental instabilities making it hard to focus on longer term goals. Being rich and white is not an indicator of racism either. The reason why the established rich 1% in the USA and the wider western world are white is because it is a legacy of the past when these countries were almost entirely white dominated. It is also a legacy of their longstanding networks. It is not a fault of the general population that this is true. and it doesn't mean the rich are intrinsically racist (although they could be described as elitist). Most importantly you don't find white Billionaires in China or India or Japan. Those rich folks came out of the general populations that literally built their countries (just as happened in the USA - slaves only contributed to southern agriculture for the most part). Where is the 'white privilege' in China or India or Japan? These societies were set up to benefit the majority and those that fall outside this sphere are naturally at a disadvantage. The idea of racist white privilege is a political construct. It is rooted in identity politics and intersectionality - where social justice extremists flag any sort of disadvantage in a society as being something that needs to be ironed flat, a mindset akin to Pol Pot's rule in Cambodia. Compounding this social justice mindset is often a victim/siege mentality, feelings of inadequacy, and a misunderstood perception of injustice in the world (based on incomplete statist...

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