racism is real

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. Black sounding names are 50 percent less likely to be called back by those reviewing job applications. In a 2002 study, Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan of the University of Chicago mailed thousands of job applications to reviewers that were identical except for the names. They found that applications with white-sounding names like Emily and Brendan were much more likely to be answered than identical resumes from black-sounding names like Lakisha and Jamal.

2. Black people are charged roughly $700 more when buying cars. A study by Ian Ayres and Peter Siegelman of Yale Law School found that dealers quoted lower prices to white men than blacks and women, even though all buyers used an identical script for negotiating.

3. Black drivers are twice as likely to get pulled over. Numerous studies -- including this 1999 study by the ACLU and an analysis of FBI records by USA Today last year -- show a significant racial gap in police stops and arrests.

4. Black clients are shown 17.7 percent fewer houses for sale. A 2012 study of housing discrimination by the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development found that black homebuyers who contacted agents about recently advertised homes for sale learned about 17 percent fewer available homes than equally qualified whites and were shown 17.7 percent fewer homes. Asian homebuyers learned about 15.5 percent fewer available homes and were shown 18.8 percent fewer homes.

5. Black people are much more likely to be arrested for marijuana use. A 2013 study by the ACLU showed that, while marijuana use rates are equal among blacks and whites, black people are 3.7 times more likely to be arrested for it.

6. Black people are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of white people. A 2007 study by Marc Mauer and Ryan King of the Sentencing Project document the incredible incarceration rates of young black men. "If current trends continue, one in three black males born today can expect to spent time in prison during his lifetime," they wrote.

7. Doctors did not inform black patients as often as white ones about an important heart procedure. In a 1999 study for The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers investigated a long-standing difference in the use of cardiovascular procedures according to the race and sex of the patient. They found that women and blacks were less likely to be referred for cardiac catheterization than men and whites, respectively, and that black women were much less likely to be referred than white men.

8. White legislators did not respond as frequently to constituents with black-sounding names. In a 2011 study, Daniel Butler and David Broockman of Yale University found that state legislators were less likely to respond to requests for help with registering to vote when the sender had a putatively black name than a white one. Legislators of both parties exhibited similar levels of discrimination against constituents with "black names." However, the study also found that minority legislators did the opposite, responding more frequently to those with black names
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-one-video-that-shows-how-racism-is-real-in-the-us-10220844.html

[safeinOhio]

1. Back in the mid-60s my class read

Black Like Me. I really feel that book shaped my life and put me on the road to empathy.

I wonder if kids still read that book? They should. I'd like to see all of the talking heads on Fox get made up to look black and drive around towns at night. Might change their outlook.

[Major Hogwash]

4. I seriously doubt that any high school teachers ask their kids to read that book.

It's just not something that they want to discuss these days.
A lot of books have fallen by the wayside since then, perhaps because teachers think they are outdated and from another era.

[Skittles]

10. I read that book

it wasn't a school assignment, although I did borrow it from a school chum

[lovemydog]

2. Regarding numbers 5 & 6. End the war on drugs.

It's racist in its application.

[hifiguy]

3. The facts are what the are.

And people need to know them. This should make everyone take a look at the reality of American society.

[lovemydog]

5. So true hifiguy.

Can you recommend any good books? I'm reading a great one called Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin. It was published last year and came out in paperback recently. Really fascinating, extremely well researched & well-written. All these issues jump off the page. As you say, the facts are what they are and people need to know them. It is reality of American society. Of course the book covers primarily the 1960's & early 1970's. Nearly all the same issues are highly relevant today.

[malaise]

6. Yep these are the facts

Rec

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Excellent summary of the facts

And this should have hundreds of recs. As much as some DUers try to shut down any discussion of race, you just have to blast through blockade.

There was a much talked-about ABC 20/20 special a little over a decade ago about what was essentially "talking while black" where some whites could key into the vocal dialects, intonations, and speech patterns of callers and would discriminate based on that (e.g., someone calling about the availability of rentals). This has nothing to do with "economic justice" and everything to do with "social justice".

Other examples - ABC came back around in 2010 with their "What would you do?" series - the first being much discussed regarding 2 actors, one white, one black, both assigned to go through a scenario in the public to steal a bike placed by the show. The reactions by passerbys were of course, reality. Pure unadulterated white privilege.

Another episode (which I am just seeing now) was about "shopping while black" -

David and Charles Koch are not doing this across this nation. An unfortunate amount of American whites are.

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. another "what would u do" got calls to police because their black actors

We're waiting in the car

[Thespian2]

8. Yep.

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, important novel...

[etherealtruth]

9. Very! nt