The creator of the Christian cartoon Veggie Tales is helping bring understanding to the reality of systemic racism.

Phil Vischer has been speaking out on race relations as of late. He previously shared on how he viewed white privilege working to his benefit in his own life.

In a short video posted on June 14, the voice of Bob the Tomato walks through the history of how laws enacted in the United States since the freeing of slaves have worked to prevent people of colour from "getting ahead" in life.

These laws included preventing homeownership for black people, and using highways to separate white and black neighbourhoods. 

Vischer says even things like the GI Bill, set up to help returning WWII veterans buy homes with subsidized mortgages, "the way it was administered left 1 million black veterans largely on the outside looking in."

That meant white families were able to build equity, save for education for their children, etc. "One historian has stated that there was 'no greater instrument for widening an already huge racial gap in postwar America than the GI Bill,'" Vischer says.

Vischer goes on to explain how those limitations in real estate had a wide-ranging effect on black communities and future generations.

"I'm not here to tell you what the right solutions are," he says in closing, "because I don't know. I'm just here to ask you to do one thing. It is the thing that begins every journey to a solution for every problem. What am I asking you to do? Care."