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Here is a pretty good article from Peter Joseph, from Zeitgeist fame; he argues that systemic racism is a structural problem rooted in the economic paradigm of a prevailing culture, and the only way to rid societies of such racism is to change the economic structures. I see a lot of discussion around such ideas going on the past decade and more – think the Venus Foundation, Yanis Varifoukas and a few others – with the idea of UBI at the heart of suggestions for such change. Needless to say, the idea of UBI attached to concepts of ‘social control indexes’ (think digital money, virus vaccine chips etc etc) has no appeal to me right now, but I don’t want to throw out the baby with the current filthy bathwater either. I am seeing little discussion of such ideas in any mainstream discourse, particularly as the whole world gears up for the US election and whatever fractious results that brings, but I am hopeful that such discussions do lead to some serious structural reforms over time, though I am well aware that nothing will change in the short term. In the end, such structural reform is critical if we are to avoid a full blown collapse of ‘the system’ as it now stands; the question of course is how do we get such reforms into mainstream discourse? 🙂
https://medium.com/@peter_joseph/systemic-racism-in-the-united-states-origins-perpetuation-and-solutions-943663dec32e