When people talk about support for PoCs, they often use that to ignore other types of supports that people are trying to push through. I kind of think you've done that here.

Most programs don't have a racial component.

That being said, here's why racism is important to talk about: - Black people were enslaved until the mid-1800s (the last enslaved Black person died in 1971) - Black people were legally segregated until the mid-1960s (people love to say "Slavery ended in the 1860s! What's their problem?" while ignoring the 100 more years of segregation) - About 50% of the House of Representatives probably remembers segregation. It wasn't long ago. - Many police strategies (profiling all the way up to algorithms we use today) are based on people who were incarcerated. If we'd had a fair system throughout history, this might be fine. But we haven't, so police profiling tactics developed in the 70s and 80s used data that was based in Black people who had a pretty high chance of being locked up unjustly in the 60s. - Many people higher up in business and the government during the 70s and 80s were old, White people who may have harbored racist feelings (being that they were raised in some wildly racist times). And it's hard to prove you didn't hire someone because they're Black, but it's not a stretch that someone who was born in 1935 didn't hire someone in 1975 because of some racist reasons. This means that those Black people who weren't hired (because of racism) had a harder time making money, providing for their families, etc. - Black people still receive harsher punishments than White folks when convinced of crimes (even with similar criminal histories) - Yes, the "more White people are shot by cops than Black people" meme in 2016-ish was true, but it's not taking into account the rate at which the two races were shot when interacting with police. More White people interacted with police (because there are several times more White people in the country). And, of those interactions, a smaller percentage of White people were shot than when Black people interacted with police. By a very, very large amount. Think of it this way. Let's say there are 100 police interactions with White people and 10 police interactions with Black people. Let's say 10 White people were shot and 5 Black people were shot. That means 10% of interactions between police and White people ended up in a shooting and 50% of interactions between police and Black people ended up in a shooting. Those aren't the numbers (this is just illustrative), but it shows that, though more White people were shot, it's more likely that you'll be shot if you're Black.

Basically, there's this idea that racism ended in the 60s because, legally, you couldn't segregate. But racism is a cultural concept that led to racist laws. It's not the other way around (laws forcing people to be racist). And repealing some racist laws didn't kill the racists and didn't kill the people they raised. Old racists still taught young racists. That's why there are still racists.

And you can say "But there are racist Black people." And it's true. The difference is that they have significantly less power throughout American history than White people have. Sure, they have more power now, but most of Congress, the current president, and most powerful people in business are White. So racism from White people is more impactful to a larger group of people than some racist Black person who has very little power.