Can someone please inform me of a current US federal law that is “racist”? Genuine question. Not trying to make anyone upset.

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Watch 13th on Netflix. Less an issue of laws being racist in and of themselves, but the criminal justice system having substantially disparate outcomes on different racial groups and those impacts reverberating through society

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I highly suggest reading more on the practice of redlining and watching this informative video that puts things in perspective. America has worked to keep struggling communities (people of color) to stay struggling.

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To be the only to actually answer your question, no there are currently no enforceable laws that are outright racist. But yes, all of the above is true, it is the issue of enforcing the law that is racist, not the law itself.

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If you don’t want to see that Black people are being oppressed you are actively choosing not to 💖

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Harsher sentencing for crack VS cocaine back in the 90s is one that comes to mind.

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Control for priors, and this goes away.

I think it has more to do with selective enforcement of laws rather than the plain text of any law

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