African-Americans are victims of systematic racism in the modern day US.

As my opponent has FF this round, I'll get right in to it and hopefully he can get involved from R3 onwards.The argument for current systematic racismThere are too many instances of systematic racism to list and as I'm a bot worried my opponent might not post again, I'd prefer to keep it short and focus on just one example.RedliningRedlining is "the practice of denying services, either directly or through selectively raising prices, to residents of certain areas based on the racial or ethnic makeups of those areas"[1]It gets its name from the historic practice of insurance companies, housing companies and banks agencies circling entire (largely black or other minority) areas of a city on a map and refusing to do business with them, which in some early cases was done with a red pen.Though the name is historic, it is still occurring in the present[2] and Patrice Ficklin, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's assistant director of fair lending has said "they are finding more redlining in the wake of the financial crisis" and ""We've done a lot of work to try to identify the folks who deserve our attention and there are a number of lenders who seem to be choosing to market differently in white areas than minority areas. And we've got a number of those investigations going on."This is not a case of an individual employee happening to be be racist, but institutional policies present in multiple organisations which effect racial minorities across entire areas. It is a clear example of systematic racism in action.This even has further implications beyond access to financial services and housing. One study, for instance, has shown that the knock-on effects of living in a more highly segregated redlined areas leads to additional stress and negative effects.[3]The argument from past systematic racismSocial mobility, even in a hypothetical race blind world, is effected by numerous factors. One of the most important factors in a Capitalist society is the status you are born into.A child born into a rich family tends to be rich as an adult and a child born into a poor family tends to be poor as an adult. The same with well-educated and poorly educated families. These aren't ironclad rules, but they are real tendencies.Hopefully this makes intuitive sense to most people, as being born into a rich family gives a whole host of advantages to the child. However, if it doesn't then this except from an OECD report on social mobility may be of use. For those who aren't familiar with this type of chart, the Y axis goes between 0.0 and 1.0 so readings of 0.4 are pretty high. Nothing tends to reach 1.0 as that would be a country where there is no social mobility at all and everyone always maintains exactly the same educational background and earnings as their parents.I don't think it can be disputed there was systematic racism in the past, but just in case; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a key landmark in the rights of People of Colour. It was this act which made it illegal to discriminate in employment based on race. Indeed at the time it was widespread and systematic discrimination in employment which was thought to be "the most widespread and undoubtedly the most harmful to its victims and the nation as a whole." [4] This is a key indicator that before 1964 there was widespread systematic racism.Based on this, we can see that the systematic racism of the past still effects African-Americans today. Even if we assumed that society is Utopian today, the negative effects of past systematic discrimination do not simply disappear. African-American families in the 60's would have been poorer and less well educated due to the systematic discrimination they face. This means that regardless of anything else, the generations to come would also be disadvantaged by starting off from a much weaker position.To be honest, even the social mobility data isn't strictly necessary. People who were working several decades ago are still alive today and African Americans who were discriminated against didn't magically get money or education to make up for their losses once laws like the Civil Rights Act were passed. They are therefore still worse off and still victims.Another more recent example is drug policies. Up until a few years ago there were inconsistent drug policies with cocaine (predominantly a drug used by black people) being treated far more leniently than crack cocaine (disproportionately a drug used by black people). "Under the current penalty structure, established during the so-called "crack epidemic" of the late 1980s, possession of crack can carry the same sentence as the possession of a quantity of cocaine that is 100 times larger. The Controlled Substances act established a minimum mandatory sentence of five years for a first-time trafficking offense involving over five grams of crack, as opposed to 500 grams of powder cocaine."[5] A bipartisan committee instituted laws to remedy this in 2010, but that does not allow those who have already been sentenced to get back the time in jail that they had to suffer through.In other words, this: http://goo.gl...[1]https://goo.gl...[2]http://goo.gl...[3]https://goo.gl...[4]http://tinyurl.com...[5]http://goo.gl...