Brilliant! This made me happy. I also sometimes forget that there is actually this thing about whites versus blacks versus whatever colored people.

Growing up in the US, I learned to exist happily within a small rational subculture embedded withing a larger culture that is simply insane. The superstitions around “race” are just one aspect of that insanity. There is also the crudest form of Christianity that has ever existed, a reification of “democracy” that is part of a national religion and conflates what is popular with what is right, the prejudice against being educated....it goes on, and I could go on, forever.

You get to understand when you see the divide of prosperity, government support, unequal laws, school access, etc in numbers.

There are no unequal laws.

Now I concede there is grossly unequal enforcement of laws. But the words on the page are just the words on the page. It's the people who enforce those laws in an inequitable fashion.

Before it was illegal/unconstitional many unequal laws were passed. Now that there are explicit laws banning the practice, any newly passed unequal will not be explicit in its language otherwise it can easily be striken down and made unenforceable in court. This may be why you can't recognize modern unequal laws that do exist and likely will continue to be passed in the near future.

There are plenty examples of unequal laws. Look up how Georgia is disenfranching the black vote with recent laws they passed after the last election. We also have unequal enforcement of the law and unequal punishments.

The effects of entrenched discrimination in the US fade quite a bit when you hit upper middle class or above. They don't vanish entirely, but you have a lot more of a cushion and generally can avoid the problem areas. You can also fight back legally if necessary.