Breaking Down the Illusion of Systemic Racism—Wilfred Reilly on Breonna Taylor, Riots & Beyond

“Every system you could possibly think of produces some kind of racial or sexual or class discrepancy. And this allows the radicals to be radicals eternally, and to claim that everything is racist,” says Wilfred Reilly. Headlines tell us that blacks get shot by police officers more often, get paid less than whites, and tend to do worse on standardized tests. Many point to systemic racism as the cause of these apparent discrepancies, but in most cases, this argument ignores basic facts, says Wilfred Reilly, Associate Professor of Political Science at Kentucky State University. He’s the author of “Hate Crime…