After a deep conversation with myself and one of my friends, and examining my own unconscious bias, I have changed my opinion and come to the conclusion that systemic racism does exist. Particularly in since of two things. 1. The drug wars long lasting effects on the community. 2. And politicians constantly zoning lower income predominantly black neighborhoods into the inner cities. This has created a long lasting effect on the populations that grow up in these neighborhoods. Not all obviously because I come from a similar lower class neighborhood in Southeast Dallas. I should take notice that myself and my friends resilience to be able to come out of that isn't shared by everyone in that community and that's not their fault because they are set up to fail. You couple that with the other facts that most of the people I grew up around didn't have fathers and you have no direction and what seems like no hope. So you are crippled before you even start the race. And I consider myself very lucky to have a father even though he was an abusive asshole. I would like to continue the dialogue with a more open mind and heart going forward. Sometimes even at my age I forget that I can't expect everyone to have the same attitude against the odds as I do no matter how helpful I think it might be. However, I do think we are attacking this issue the wrong way and I still believe the kids are going for low hanging fruit but that's what kids do. They don't understand the big picture yet and that's ok. I also think systemic racism is a very amorphous term that's used in so many different ways that it kind of makes the argument unsustainable the way it's presented. And I also stand by what I said that a lot of you are pandering and have too much white guilt because some of the things said have been absolutely ridiculous but I guess some of the things Ive said have been too. I would suggest based on some of the responses Ive got, y'all should do the same thing and have a deep conversation with yourselves. And I think there are still far bigger issues at play facing the whole community. In short, I always will support the team and the players. It was never about shitting on them so much as it was the execution of the ideas. Longhorn for life. Hook Em.