NewsVine_Mariyam
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I'm posting this as a companion piece to this thread:
Zone1 - What Is Meant When It Is Said That a Person Has a White Supremacist Mindset (or is a Racist) - Part II With Required Sourcing & Citations
So many people, starting with just this one message board, are in denial. Not just about Black Americans and the challenges we still face as we navigate life as a part of a minority that was for several centuries legislatively relegated to 2nd class citizenship status. And yes while the laws regarding legal discrimination and segregation were eventually changed, as we can see, on a myriad of topics, just like we know that seems like half of the country is not happy with many of the major decisions that we don't get any say in, a segment of the white American majority in our country didn't then and still don't care what our law say.
They will tell you that it's their right to be racist, that racism is "not against the law" and they see nothing wrong with their beliefs, behaviors or comments. Those are not the people who are problematic with the exception of the violent fringes, because they show us, every single day, exactly who and what they are. It's the one who steadfastly insist that they are not racists while spewing a barrage of vitriol directed against Black in general, Black "culture" (whatever that is), as well as specific Black members of this message board that are the problem because they have others convinced they are not racists as well. And they are judges, and prosecutors, and attorneys, and investigators and legislators, employers and others who are in positions of authority who can enforce their biases and prejudices against others without anyone ever calling them on their racially biased viewpoints, except rarely.
Zone1 - What Is Meant When It Is Said That a Person Has a White Supremacist Mindset (or is a Racist) - Part II With Required Sourcing & Citations
So many people, starting with just this one message board, are in denial. Not just about Black Americans and the challenges we still face as we navigate life as a part of a minority that was for several centuries legislatively relegated to 2nd class citizenship status. And yes while the laws regarding legal discrimination and segregation were eventually changed, as we can see, on a myriad of topics, just like we know that seems like half of the country is not happy with many of the major decisions that we don't get any say in, a segment of the white American majority in our country didn't then and still don't care what our law say.
They will tell you that it's their right to be racist, that racism is "not against the law" and they see nothing wrong with their beliefs, behaviors or comments. Those are not the people who are problematic with the exception of the violent fringes, because they show us, every single day, exactly who and what they are. It's the one who steadfastly insist that they are not racists while spewing a barrage of vitriol directed against Black in general, Black "culture" (whatever that is), as well as specific Black members of this message board that are the problem because they have others convinced they are not racists as well. And they are judges, and prosecutors, and attorneys, and investigators and legislators, employers and others who are in positions of authority who can enforce their biases and prejudices against others without anyone ever calling them on their racially biased viewpoints, except rarely.
- Protests in recent years underscored the ways racism and racial inequality persist in American life.
- Data and research show how Black Americans experience different treatment from their white counterparts.
- These charts show the extent of racial disparities in America, in areas like employment and wealth.
More than two years after nationwide protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, conversations about the way Black Americans are policed — as well as the other inequities they face in modern life — have persisted in America.
Extensive academic research and data collected by the federal government and researchers have documented numerous ways that Black Americans experience life in the United States differently from their white counterparts, whether it's underrepresentation in college attainment rates or overrepresentation in COVID-19 hospitalizations.
It's called "systemic" racism because it's ingrained in nearly every way people move through society in the policies and practices at institutions like banks, schools, companies, government agencies, and law enforcement.
The resulting data show that these disparities exist along nearly every facet of American life, including employment, wealth, education, home ownership, healthcare, and incarceration.
The employment-population ratio measures the share of a demographic group that has a job, and it's been lower for Black people for years.
The employment-population ratio for Black Americans has historically tended to fall quite a bit lower than for whites or Latinos.
Since the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdowns across the country triggered a recession starting in March of 2020, employment for all racial groups fell dramatically, though they have rebounded to pre-pandemic levels in 2022.
The unemployment rate also spiked for all racial groups in the US during the coronavirus pandemic, and remains relatively higher for Black Americans.
Just as Black employment has historically been lower than for whites, the unemployment rate among Black Americans has been higher. This remains the case despite low unemployment rates across the board.
Black Americans are underrepresented in high-paying jobs.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that 58% of employed Asians worked in management, professional, and related occupations — the highest-paying major occupational category — compared with 43% of employed whites, 35% of employed Blacks, and 26% of employed Hispanics.
This, in part, can be explained by racist hiring practices that kept Blacks out of business for decades under Jim Crow. It can also be explained by more subtle forms of prejudice today.
One Harvard University study found that when Blacks and Asians "whitened" their resumes — for example, used "American" or "white"-sounding names — they got more callbacks for corporate interviews. 25% of Black candidates received callbacks from their whitened resumes, while only 10% got calls when they left ethnic details on their resume.
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