If you’d like to have a more well-rounded source of information on all of this, I suggest you check out these links.
This wiki is a very thorough but not too long look at the history of institutional racism in America and how that still impacts us today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism
This one on the history of police brutality is similarly informative, filled with data and links, but not too long.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_brutality_in_the_United_States
Non-hispanic whites are 60% of the population; Blacks are about 13%, so it would make sense that more white people are killed by the police looking at gross numbers, but that only makes the percentage numbers all the more stark.
Patriarchy is not only about a historic power differential between men and women and I explore the other aspects in this story, but I also go into the gender element in detail.
“In other words, to prove that we live in a patriarchy in the US, I don’t even need to go into the myriad ways that women are still too often treated as second-class citizens, as if they were here on earth for the pleasure and enjoyment of men, and to make their lives more comfortable.
I don’t need to talk about the fact that there are more Fortune 500 CEOs named John than there are female CEOs in that category.
I don’t need to talk about how most of the world’s poor are female, including here in the US.
I don’t need to talk about how we live in a rape culture where women are still vilified, shamed, and disbelieved for being attacked by men.
I don’t need to talk about how women still do the vast majority of home care, child care, and eldercare work, no matter whether they work outside the home or not.
I don’t need to talk about how pretty much no organized religion treats women equal to men.
I don’t need to talk about how women are continually told to “watch your tone” or to otherwise censor their speech in order to be deemed acceptable in ways that men never are.
I don’t need to talk about the orgasm gap that affects women who have sex with men, but not those who have sex with women.”
Most of this isn’t happening because men or Whites are malicious or evil, or inherently terrible human beings. It’s mostly happening because our social system is designed to have inequality — it’s baked in to the mix (more about that in my story). Understanding that might help you to feel less defensive about the what’s taking place. It’s not so much that most cops are racists, for example, it’s that the system of policing we have in this country is firmly entrenched in an Us v. Them outlook that comes out of the dominance heirarchy. The problems come directly out of the structure.
