Racially disparate outcomes persist without any explicit racist intention.

Evidence

No conspiracy, no racist “intention” or explicit institutionally racist rules. Each outcome legitimated by the individuated details, decisions of individual actors reasoning on the basis of the “best evidence” available to them, including statistical “evidence” regarding crimes, IQ test scores, pass or failure rates, family histories as well as previous criminal records. And yet again and again the children of less-well-off families of color get to do time while their better-off white counterparts at worst get reprimands. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 424

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the structural-racism logic in Home Boy and The Reluctant Fundamentalist — systemic bias operating through ‘neutral’ individual decisions. — connects to: Black drivers are routinely stopped without cause in a pattern whites never experience. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1255
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that individuals acting on ‘best evidence’ can reproduce structural racism without any intent is a paradigm-level point about how racism persists in liberal societies — the statistical evidence itself becomes the racist mechanism.