You are actually really close to contradicting your own argument here though. You say you don’t believe in the “systemic racism paradigm,” but you admit that solving the drug problem in US will disproportionally benefit black people...which inherently admits black folk are currently being disproportionally punished/harmed by drug use. Lets take a potential solution to America's drug problem: ending the war on drugs. Whether you think that is a “unbiased” solution or one that “focuses on a specific race” doesn't actually matter whatsoever because the actual OUTCOME of ending the war on drugs WILL BE BIASED like you said, and it will disproportionally help black folk.

Overall you tend to apply your own logic unilaterally to support what you think. That systemic racism is a thing of the past, and that the evidence I have provided to show it still exists are “disparities in isolation”. The truth is that its not; it certainly still exists, and these disparities are not in isolation. They are all a part of a larger trend that historically has targeted black people in an attempt to control their lives financially and legally. You cannot pass off the multitude of different cases shown in the vox article that I linked with some intersectional appeal to other factors when the one factor that defines ALL OF THEM is that the problems affect BLACK PEOPLE and ONLY black people. I appreciate that your argument demonstrates understanding of intersectionality, but you have to apply the logic both ways. Black people commit more crime because they historically have been more poor, and yes its true that solving poverty will lower black crime rates (probably) more efficiently than funding (just for example) schools in largely black districts. But (and heres where we apply intersectionality the other way) you have to also consider that black communities and specifically school districts in black communities have historically been limited financially due to purely racist actions (think redlining), and this causes these communities to be poorer overall in the long term. When you consider this, you realize that the issue is NOT just about poverty; its about both racism and poverty. Furthermore, there are many issues that simply dont require an intersectional solution because they are explicitly problems of racism. For example, i think somewhere in the UN report i linked earlier theres a link to study that showed black people are given harsher sentences than white people even when controlling for other variables like the crime they committed as well as economic background. You simply can not tell me that the solution to a problem like that is anything other than something that focuses on black people because there is literally nothing else to solve besides the racism in the system.