Roderick Graham
1 min readJul 15, 2020

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Ideas that implicate the behaviors of racial groups as the reason for unequal outcomes are racist in their outcomes (maybe not intent). This is because people respond to their environment and navigate it the best way they can. We all want the same things in general, and we use the tools at our disposal to achieve those things.

In other words, the behaviors you see from black folks are largely the result of racist policies and group behaviors from whites. If you change the policies and the behaviors, then you would see a corresponding change in the behaviors of black people.

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Roderick Graham
Roderick Graham

Written by Roderick Graham

Gadfly | Professor of Sociology at Old Dominion University | I post about social science, culture, and progressive politics | Views are my own

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