Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
Today I'd like to figure out what institutional racism is.
There must be such a thing because Barack Obama taught a course on it at University of Chicago Law School.
And this year, Nancy Pelosi celebrated Black History Month by saying that the country, and I quote,"must strive to end institutional racism." Bernie Sanders is a bitter foe of institutional racism, and Hillary Clinton denounces systemic racism,
which sounds like the same thing.
So what is this stuff?
Wikipedia defines it as institutional systemic policies, practices, and economic and political structures which place minority racial and ethnic groups at a disadvantage.
This is policies and structures, not racist people.
After all...
If you want to explain high black crime and illegitimacy rates, it's hard to find actual white racists to blame it on.
Probably the most famous racist in America is David Duke, but what is he doing to oppress black people?
Nothing. And if he isn't, who is?
Well, it turns out you don't need racists for blacks to suffer from racism.
As someone named Jay Michelson explained in 2015 in the Daily Beast, and I quote, You might not find any individual racist, but the system is stacked against people of color.
That's how privilege and oppression are maintained, not by villains like Dylann Roof, but by silent, macroeconomic factors that are structural in nature.
Well, how is the system stacked against non-whites?
I looked around.
And I found an article in U.S. News and the World Report from May 6, 2015 called"Institutional Racism is Our Way of Life." But the author mostly just rattles off statistics about how bad things are for blacks compared to whites.
They get suspended more often in school, are paid less, have less money, are unemployed, more likely to go to jail.
But that doesn't explain how institutional racism works.
The whole concept starts with the fact that blacks have it bad and then goes looking for an explanation.
There aren't enough bona fide racists to explain what's going on, so the system itself must be institutionally racist.
But what is it that's wrong with the system if lots of blacks end up in jail?
If you mug somebody and you get caught, you go to jail.
If blacks do more of that than whites, they go to jail more often.
There's nothing wrong with the system or the institution.
Some people think there are a lot of blacks in jail because racist police arrest innocent blacks and let guilty whites go.
This is bunk, as we explain in great detail in this report, The Color of Crime.
Read it and you'll see.
Some people say blacks are treated worse than whites for the same behavior.
We hear that blacks aren't any more likely than whites to use drugs, but get arrested for them a whole lot more often.
I did an entire video that obliterates that myth.
It's on our YouTube channel, and it's called Race and Drug Arrests.
Why are blacks poorer than whites?
If a lot of them get bad grades in school, drop out, don't go to college, spend time in jail, they're not going to get rich.
There might be some individual whites who don't like blacks, but institutions are not keeping them down.
Some people claim banks refuse to make loans to blacks because of institutional racism.
This is nuts.
Banks make money by making loans.
And if bankers discriminate against blacks by holding them to higher credit standards, then blacks should have lower default rates than whites.
In fact, Studies that go all the way back to the 1980s show that blacks have higher default rates.
This means bankers are holding them to lower credit standards.
Sometimes blacks maybe are treated differently.
There is a famous experiment from 2003 that used two identical resumes but with different names.
One said Scott Johnson.
The other said Deshaun Johnson.
Otherwise identical.
Well, apparently, Scott got a call for an interview for every 10 resumes he sent out, but Deshaun had to send 15 to get a call.
You can argue about whether or not that's unfair or whether it's rational to think that Scott might be a better bet than Deshaun to run your pawn shop.
But Deshaun's problems have nothing to do with structure or institutions.
Maybe some people just don't want to hire blacks, but it's not an institutional problem.
And by the way, a study just last year by the University of Missouri found no difference at all in callback rates for resumes with black, white, or Hispanic names on them.
Let's take another example.
Stop and frisk by the police.
Men are stopped more often than women because men are more likely to be criminals.
Blacks are stopped more often than whites because blacks are more likely to be criminals.
Now this may be too bad for innocent blacks who get stopped.
But the system isn't being unfair to them any more than it's unfair to innocent men who are stopped.
Police make rational decisions based on experience.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio decided that the whole idea of stop and frisk was institutional racism, and he abolished it.
Well, crime went up.
And remember, institutional racism is supposed to oppress People of color, that is to say, all non-whites.
Well, it's doing a mighty poor job of oppressing Asians.
Asians are five times more likely than whites to get into an Ivy League school.
They are 16 times more likely to get into UC Berkeley.
And while the median income of white families is just under $60,000 a year, Asians make more than $74,000.
Indian Americans make over $100,000.
They're not white either, you know.
Iranian families make almost as much as Asians.
Immigrants from Turkey, Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt all make more money than white people.
Institutional racism is supposed to grind down all non-whites, remember?
Oh, I forgot, the median family income for blacks is $36,500, and for Somalis it's
22,000.
Must be institutional racism.
Well, but how come it pushes Somalis down, but Egyptians up?
Maybe it's because Egyptians are more likely than whites to have a college degree, while 91% of the refugees who came from Somalia this year are high school dropouts.
So, why do blacks do so poorly?
I have a whole video on this, too, and it's called Race Differences in Intelligence.
Here's the 30-second version.
These IQ bell curves show average IQs.
85 for blacks, that's the red line at the left.
100 for whites, the dotted red line in the middle.
And 105 for Asians, the red line over at the right.
Obviously there's overlap, but the races are simply not the same.
Do you see that blue dotted line to the left?
This is the cutoff for people with an IQ of 75 or less.
That group has almost no chance of getting ahead, and as you can see, it includes a lot of blacks.
This is the real problem, not institutional racism.
We keep inventing new excuses to explain low black achievement: the legacy of slavery, white privilege, systemic racism, institutional racism, the terrible damage done by microaggressions.
How long are we supposed to keep believing these fairy tales?
And there actually is one indisputable form of institutional racism in the United States.
It's called affirmative action.
Universities deliberately admit blacks and Hispanics with worse qualifications than whites.
And big corporations spend millions trying to achieve diversity, which means hiring anybody but white men.
The only legal, institutionalized form of racism in America is directed against whites.
All this jabber about institutional racism is more of the same anti-white nonsense.
When are we going to get a little institutional reality, a little institutional backbone?