Is America Racism?

The debate is really a debate about how racism matters. The united states has unique, exceptional levels of concentrated poverty among advanced capitalist countries. It's the only developed country to also have been a slave society and that has left enduring social problems. And it taxes much less of its overall national income than other countries, and redistributes less to the poor. You put those two things together, and i think you have a pretty good explanation for america's exceptional levels concentrated bagen.