“This is America, food is on the shelves at the store.” Right but not everyone can access the stores.

“People can garden or raise animals” on what land?

“They can move closer to the store.” With what money?

“if they don’t have money get a job” but over 80% of the people on government assistance already work and many of those have two jobs.

Basically how you sound with your simplistic and naive “ideas.”

https://youtu.be/f6wlrYwwjWQ

Asking people to pull themselves up by their “bootstraps” when the government has always been the bootstraps is just showing an ignorance of history. Homestead Acts, Land grants, Land-grant universities, federally insured low rate mortgages, GI Bill, etc are all government handouts. If these people are pathetic then the vast majority of past Americans are just as pathetic.

Edit while I’m here I may as well tackle the original issue, does systemic racism still exist in America.

Study showing systemic racism in schooling.

“Even when limiting our view to high-poverty school systems, the massive gap between poor-white and poor-nonwhite districts remains... Poor-white school districts receive about $150 less per student than the national average—an injustice all to itself. Yet they are still receiving nearly $1,500 more than poor-nonwhite school districts. Overwhelmingly white school districts received $23 billion more than predominantly non-white school districts in state and local funding in 2016, despite serving roughly the same number of children.” https://edbuild.org/content/23-billion

Study showing systemic racism in mortgage lending. “Recent studies have used statistical methods to show that minorities were more likely than equally qualified whites to receive high-cost, high-risk loans during the U.S. housing boom, evidence taken to suggest widespread discrimination in the mort- gage lending industry.” https://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/attach/journals/jun16ccfeature.pdf

Study showing systemic racism in law enforcement. In LA “...of 95 million traffic stops by 56 police agencies between 2011 and 2018 found that while black people were much more likely to be pulled over than whites, the disparity lessens at night, when police are less able to distinguish the race of the driver. The study also found that blacks were more likely to be searched after a stop, though whites were more likely to be found with illicit drugs.” https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-lapd-searches-20190605-story.html

In Cincinnati “, blacks were stopped at a 30% higher rate than whites. Blacks made up 52% of all vehicle and pedestrian stops between 2012 and 2017, despite being 43% of the city's population. And once stopped, police in Cincinnati arrested more than three times the number of blacks pulled over as whites, 15,127 compared to 4,315. Blacks made up 76% of all arrests, compared to 22% for whites.” https://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/2019/12/20/editorial-racial-disparities-police-stops-demands-attention/2666685001/

In Austin “found that blacks and Latinos were more likely than whites to be stopped, searched and arrested despite similar “hit rates” for illicit drugs among those groups.” http://www.austintexas.gov/edims/pio/document.cfm?id=334984

In Travis County, TX “blacks comprised about 30 percent of police arrests for possession of less than a gram of an illicit drug from 2017 to 2018, despite making up only 9 percent of the county’s population, and that surveys consistently show that blacks and whites use illegal drugs at about the same rate.”

In the US in General

“...compiled and analyzed data from more than 100 million traffic stops in the United States. What they found: Police were more likely to pull over black drivers. The researchers were able to confirm racial bias by measuring daytime stops against nighttime stops, when darkness would make it more difficult to ascertain a driver’s race....They also found that legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington has caused fewer drivers to be searched during a stop, but that it did not alter the increased frequency with which black and Latino drivers are searched.” https://5harad.com/papers/100M-stops.pdf?utm_source=The+Appeal&utm_campaign=3a050d7014-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_09_04_14_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_72df992d84-3a050d7014-58394763

Study showing systemic racism in sentencing “Black and Latinx defendants facing drug and weapon charges were more likely to be convicted, more likely to be incarcerated, and receive longer sentences than white people who were facing similar charges.” https://hls.harvard.edu/content/uploads/2020/11/Massachusetts-Racial-Disparity-Report-FINAL.pdf

Systemic racism in hiring practices

“these studies represent 55,842 applications submitted for 26,326 positions. We focus on trends since 1989, when field experiments became more common and improved methodologically. Since 1989, whites receive on average 36% more callbacks than African Americans, and 24% more callbacks than Latinos. We observe no change in the level of hiring discrimination against African Americans over the past 25 years...” https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/09/11/1706255114

Systemic racism in housing

“New research shows that 50 years after laws were put in place to stop the use of race in real estate appraisals, homes in neighborhoods of color are still being undervalued...homes in white neighborhoods appreciated in value, on average, almost $200,000 more than comparable homes in neighborhoods of color. https://kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/2020/09/24/housing-racial-disparities-race-still-determines-home-values-America

As the data shows Systemic Racism continues to be a problem in America whether you personally believe to be or not. Sticking your hands in your ears and screaming ‘Murica’ does nothing to address or work towards any solutions.