"Police in Florida in the 2000 election actively blocked blacks from voting and sent them home when they tried to show up."

Do you have a link for that? I hadn't run across that claim before.

In general, I don't think the system is racist. I think it preserves that status quo, but that isn't the same thing. If the system was racist, there would be a smaller percentage of white people in poverty today, and a greater percentage of white people in the ruling class.