Systemic issues come from individual choices. Pretending that your vote washes your hands from the outcome is a fantasy that white people tell themselves when they are confronted with their culpability in enabling the systemic racism.

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You’re doing the classic “personal racism vs systemic racism” bit. Although let’s be honest, a lot of those white folks were. The white people who left could get loans to move into nicer areas - non-whites could not. Systemic racism.

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“In 1941 a developer built a half-mile wall near 8 Mile to split a Black neighborhood from a new white subdivision, because the FHA wouldn't back loans for the white homes without it. It's still standing. That's the system white families could move through and Black families couldn't.”

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Was red-lining wrong? Was creating expressways across Black neighborhoods and leaving white ones untouched wrong? Was a race to sell a house before property values decreased wrong? My grandparents lived in an area that became largely black. They stayed. They lived. The area eventually changed again

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Alternatively, maybe they actually were racist, and that's why they became Republicans, when the GOP signaled that there was plenty of room in their tent for racists. You know, "Law'N'Order", "Welfare Queens", "Young bucks on street corners"?

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