"As a theory, it is premised on the research-supported claim that the United States was founded as a racist society, that racism is thus embedded in all social institutions, structures, and social relations within our society. Rooted in a racist foundation, systemic racism today is composed of intersecting, overlapping, and codependent racist institutions, policies, practices, ideas, and behaviors that give an unjust amount of resources, rights, and power to white people while denying them to people of color.
...Vested Group Interests Among White People
Within a racist society, white people enjoy many privileges denied to POC.
Among these is the way that vested group interests among powerful whites and “ordinary whites” allow white people to benefit from a white racial identity without even identifying it as such.
This manifests in support among white people for political candidates who are white, and for laws and political and economic policies that work to reproduce a social system that is racist and has racist outcomes...
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