Why there's systemic racism in America ...

When the government creates policies and programs designed specifically to benefit one group over another purely on the basis of skin color, that’s the definition of systemic racism. 
 
Doesn’t anyone else see this?  It’s so obvious. 
 
It surprises me that this is ignored all the time.  Maybe I shouldn’t be. 
 
Democrats and the left have a long history of overt institutionalized racism. 
 
Racial segregation before and after the Civil War was always a Democrat thing.  Jim Crow laws came from Democrats.  So did poll taxes and tests.  The Klan was essentially a Democrat social club.  The Democrats’ abortion-rights hero – Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood – specifically set up her clinics in poor black neighborhoods to minimize the number of black babies born.  Democrats, led by former Klan recruiter Robert C. Byrd, filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in an attempt to keep it from passing. Even the current President, Joe Biden, was opposed to desegregation because, in his own words, he didn’t want his kids to grow up in a “racial jungle.”  
 
So you can spare me and the rest of America the BS that Democrats have always been on the side of blacks and other minorities. Nope, they haven’t. And while they – along with the progressives and other leftists – like to huff and puff about the need to address our “systemic racism” they’re actually the ones promoting and instituting what can only be called systemic racism throughout our nation.
 
Here's the thing: anytime you have elected politicians supporting quotas and preferences based on race, that’s automatically racist.  They are defining who gets what, and who doesn’t, based on skin color.  When government incorporates those quotas and preferences into laws and regulations, it becomes institutionalized racism.  In other words, systemic racism. Got it? 
 
That’s what Democrats, the progressives, the left, and committed racists like BLM and the SPLC claim to be trying to eliminate. They have a curious strategy, however.  
 
They want to end systemic racism by making more of it. 
 
The key for them is codifying preferences and quotas to reward one racial group over another.  If it were about equality, everybody would be treated the same. But they don’t want equality; they now claim they want “equity.” That means they are still discriminating by race, yet not because they’re racists, which they are, but because they claim they want a level playing field. 
 
Which, of course, they don’t really want. If they wanted a truly level playing field everybody would be treated equally and play by the same rules. That would eliminate their leverage to raise money, appease their constituencies, and demand allegiance from affected minority blocs.            
 
There already are real and implicit government quotas by race for all kinds of things.  Who gets government contracts.  Who gets promoted in the military.  Who gets a mortgage, bank loan or a loan guarantee.  Who gets research grants and funding.  Who gets hired in any company that gets Federal money.  Who gets a board seat in publicly traded companies.  Most recently, the Biden administration, in the name of addressing systemic racism, pushed through a program that disproportionately rewards black farmers over farmers of other races. 

Thereby promoting more systemic racism. Thanks, Joe.   
 
Our government’s not the only one pushing racist quotas. 
 
Our colleges and universities are happily enforcing quotas of their own. They are quietly discriminating on the basis of race; when they are caught, they plead that they must, to ensure “diversity” on their campuses.  

The truth is, based only on pure test scores and performance, Asians would beat out most other applicants at many of our premier academic institutions. So, much like the days when Harvard discriminated against more qualified Jewish applicants, the admissions departments at Harvard and other top universities have been penalizing Asian applicants and giving extra points toward acceptance to black and Hispanic applicants.  That’s racist, regardless of who is doing it.

But no one in power is brave enough to say the blindingly obvious. They know if they did, they'd be branded a racist, which, at the very least, is ironic.   
 
The discrimination in academia by race alone is illegal, no matter the rationale.  In fact, any discrimination by race alone is illegal under our laws.  No ifs, ands, or buts, about it. 
 
Think about this: if colleges and universities started discriminating against black or Hispanic applicants based solely on race, the ACLU and pretty much everybody else would be appalled. Lawsuits would fly and the Supreme Court would be involved. 
 
No, in our current political and cultural environment it’s okay to discriminate by race as long as it’s at the expense of races that aren’t black, or to a lesser extent Hispanic. 
 
It’s a bizarre world we live in. Consider that there’s a Black Entertainment Network, a BET Awards Show, an Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards Show, a Black Film Festival, the Black Lives Matter movement, and a Black Caucus in Congress.  There are also demands today on many campuses by blacks for black-only segregated dorms. Some “black-only” protests demand that when these occur all whites, including white students, faculty, and staff must leave campus.
 
Somehow, all those are perfectly fine.  Laudatory, even, by the liberal Democrats, progressives, the left, and their friends in the media. Yet if you substituted “white” for “black” in all of the above, they’d be screaming that you’re a racist bigot. A white supremacist, too. Perhaps a Nazi.     
 
Not them, of course. Whether they’re cognizant of it or not, they’re using government policies and laws to institutionalize systemic racism to fight against systemic racism.  Weird, huh? 
 
Talk about a lack of self-awareness.   
 
They can call it “equity,” “leveling the playing field,” “addressing historic wrongs” or whatever they like, but the reason there’s systemic racism here is because they continue to create more of it. 
 
Intentionally.    

How to stop virus and ransomware attacks ...

Hunt down the people creating and launching them.  And execute them.

I’m serious.  Find them and quietly execute them on the spot.  Don’t arrest them. Don’t wait for some drawn out public trial, or pleas for mercy because they might be kids.  

They show no mercy to others. Don’t show any to them.  Exterminate them immediately once they’re found. Wherever that is.  Here or anyplace else in the world.

We all know we could actually do that if we wanted. If we can find a mass murderer in Pakistan and send in a team that kills him, we can find and take out these guys.  If we can drone strike the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard while he’s traveling in Iraq, we can do the same to them.  You know we’ve done this behind the scenes to bad guys around the world for decades. 

Bad guys sometimes just seem to disappear without a trace never to be heard from again. Organized crime has been known to do this at times, and sometimes for us as well.          

But that’s not enough. Freeze and seize their assets, bank accounts, online crypto currency stashes, computer hardware, personal possessions – anything they owned, rented or borrowed before or after they started writing and pushing out viruses or ransomware.  

Do the same to everyone in their orbit, anyone who may have provided any help or encouragement to them at all. 

Then permanently pull the plug on any service provider they’ve used to spawn their wares. Find who owns that service provider and put them in jail forever.  Again, no mercy. 

Make it known in their “community” that associating with someone writing, producing, or even just distributing a virus or ransomware attack makes them an accomplice, equally guilty and subject to the same extreme punishment.  Like “disappearing.” Again, no matter where they are. 

Now, some – like the ACLU – would say this is a violation of their rights. I would say they have no rights anymore.  They are fine with endangering the lives of millions of innocent people, just as the recent ransomware attack on the Irish health system clearly demonstrates.  Once that attack began, the authorities had to cancel all appointments and surgeries.  

Some would also say the U.S. cannot be involved in such extra-judicial activities, especially when these might encompass foreign nationals. I would respond that the U.S. doesn’t have to do this itself; there are plenty of private contractors – like Blackwater and others with private strike teams – that would be happy to do it for us. For a fee of course.  Or a simple bounty on their heads.

It would be worth every penny.

We might even get some tech billionaires to help underwrite the cost.  It’s their software and platforms being used as vehicles to enable and carry out many of these attacks, after all. 

What about computer viruses and ransomware that originate in other countries; do we have the right to go in there?  Legally, perhaps not. But should we, yes.  

And we’d probably get away with it. 

Does anyone think Russia, which has enough economic and political problems already, wants to be seen as a haven for virus and ransomware operations?  A lot of them are there, and in other eastern European countries; the leaders of those countries certainly know who the bad actors are and what they’re doing. 

Does anyone think China, trying to charm and win over the rest of the world, doesn't know exactly who the hackers and ransomware creators in their country are? Of course they do; China's a police state for God's sake.    

But like the others they won’t admit it. They can’t. They have to pretend they care.  

Think about it: if the trackers start sweeping these operations out of their countries, do you think any of those leaders would stand up and fight to preserve them?  They’d have to first admit they knew who these modern-day pirates were and what they were doing all along.   

When hackers and ransomware bandits attack school systems, police departments, pipelines, public utilities, hospitals, and the entire health system of a country, it’s time to realize how dangerous these criminals are to everyone. Not just the U.S. But to the entire world.  

It's time to take them out with extreme prejudice. Wherever they are. 

Whatever the cost.