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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
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.
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.
This recent event outlines clearly as well: https://twitter.com/brent_peabody/status/1270379173383733249?s=21
If you don’t want to see that Black people are being oppressed you are actively choosing not to 💖
Harsher sentencing for crack VS cocaine back in the 90s is one that comes to mind.
Control for priors, and this goes away.
Oppression can come in many forms and the one that is most relevant to current events is “systemic” which means you won’t find outright racist plain as day laws. however you will find that the system itself is built to disenfranchise large groups of people namely the black community. Which has generationally put them behind and why “white privledge” exists to this day. https://www.instagram.com/tv/CA9LyigBdjT/
I think it has more to do with selective enforcement of laws rather than the plain text of any law