system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: If everyone is so against racism, why do we label races, offer benefits and scholarships to certain minorities, and expect certain ethnic groups to like certain politicians just because of their ethnicities?
gpt
In many ways, minorities are still at a disadvantage in the United States. The idea that racism would no longer be an issue if we stopped talking about it sounds good, but it relies on everyone not being racist/prejudiced, which is simply not the case. The programs you speak of are imperfect ways of dealing with the fact that there is absolutely no way to put everyone on even ground.