This is the Weakest Argument Ever for “Debunking” Institutional Racism

The presence of legal equality doesn’t disprove the existence of institutionalized injustice

Tim Wise
Momentum
Published in
5 min readMar 1, 2023

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Of all the arguments made by conservatives to debunk the existence of institutional racism, one stands out above the rest as the most idiotic of them all.

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Tim Wise
Momentum

Anti-racism educator and author of 9 books, including White Like Me and, most recently, Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights, December 2020)