The Emergence Of Social Justice

The emergence of social justice as an opponent of systemic racism abolished institutional racism and left individual racism as a weak, dying sign of ignorance. But, in all of its successes, social justice has failed to cure the black community of poverty—the problem to which black Americans’ disproportionate crime rate can ultimately be attributed. The figures of incarceration do not indicate that there is some corrupt, institutional racism driving the statistics; rather, they manifest a principal feature of poverty: crime.
Centuries of racism have landed black Americans in a seemingly unescapable trench of poverty. This trench was dug deeply by a number of racist institutions: slavery, the root of all racism in America; segregation, which