This is the Kator Daily Podcast for Tuesday, March 30, 2021.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Many people are turned off at hearing the term systemic racism,

presuming that the term is used to accuse an

individual of racial animus. But that's not how it works. Jonathan Blanks with the

foundation for research on equal opportunity details what systemic racism is,

and as importantly, what it is not.

You wrote a piece for Freeop, the title is, what systemic racism is and isn't.

And I think this piece is so valuable because there's a large fraction of the American public that would hear the phrase systemic racism and not

understand what it means when that term is employed by people who study this.

Just as economics or any other social science has terms that are used like allocation

or something like that. the broad public might not really understand what that means.

And of course it does have a specific meaning.

So when you use the term systemic racism, what do you mean and what do scholars mean?

Right, so systemic racism is a term of art to sort of break down what, how racism affects people in American society.

So racism being an overly broad term can mean anything from a clutched

perts on an elevator to a lynching.

So systemic racism is this one kind where that explains how systems

can have adverse impact on racial categories,

whether it's black people or agents or whomever.

And so I think a lot of people when they hear systemic racism,

they think, oh, it's a system full of racist people,

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