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Heilige
03-18-2015, 01:18 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQdMgtncpoE#t=90



Published on Dec 30, 2014

In which John talks about racism in the United States.

The playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... If you have suggestions for additions, let me know!

SOURCES

On average, black men's prison sentences are 20% longer than white men's for comparable crimes: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1000142...

Black people and white people use illegal drugs at similar rates, but black people are far more likely to be arrested for drug use: http://www.vox.com/2014/7/1/5850830/w...

African Americans are far more likely to be stopped and searched (although the contraband hit rate is higher among white people) in California: http://articles.latimes.com/2008/oct/...

And in New York (where the data isn't quite as good but appears to be comparable to CA): http://www.nyclu.org/content/nypd-qua...

Those wrongfully convicted and later exonerated by DNA are disproportionately African American: http://www.innocenceproject.org/Conte...

Black kids are far more likely to be tried as adults and more likely to receive life sentences: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/...

Black former convicts get fewer employer callbacks than white former convicts: http://www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/...

Emily and Brendan are more hirable than Lakisha and Jamal: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/capideas/...

On that front, this study is also interesting: http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/apl/9... and similar results have been found in the UK: http://www.theguardian.com/money/2009... and also in Australia: http://ftp.iza.org/dp4947.pdf

Also, this news story has some great analysis: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/25/bus...

High schools with mostly African American and Latino students are less likely to offer courses in Algebra II or Chemistry than high schools with mostly white students: https://www.documentcloud.org/documen...

This article explores many of the other ways that increasingly segregated schools have negatively affected African American students: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/sun...

And this story discusses the fact that African American students are more than twice as likely to be suspended as white students--even in preschool. http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2...

The ACP report on racial disparities in U.S. health care: http://www.acponline.org/advocacy/cur...
This (dated) study is also damning: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36... and there's lot of good info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and...

More info on increasing disparities in life expectancy between black and white people in the US: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...

The most recent polls show fewer white people thinking racism is not a problem than the ones I used in this video (although still a huge divide): http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/22/politic... and http://www.washingtonpost.com/politic... and http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2014/12...

Racial wealth disparity and the role that inheritance plays: http://iasp.brandeis.edu/pdfs/Author/...
Related wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_i...

The widening of the wealth gap: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/...

Velocirap31
03-18-2015, 03:26 PM
Some of those stats are head scratchers for sure, but I don't see the logic behind things like black males are arrested at rates twice that of white men, etc. That doesn't show prejudice, that just shows that black men are committing at least twice as many crimes and getting caught. For example, look at the school suspension rates. Isn't that just due to some black students typically being more disruptive than other races?

ace23
03-18-2015, 03:56 PM
Some of those stats are head scratchers for sure, but I don't see the logic behind things like black males are arrested at rates twice that of white men, etc. That doesn't show prejudice, that just shows that black men are committing at least twice as many crimes and getting caught.
Did you not see the part that says they use illegal drugs at similar rates?

Raymone
03-18-2015, 03:57 PM
Please, get off it already.

RightToCensor
03-18-2015, 03:59 PM
I like how white people deny that they're worse stoners than black people.

Y'all do coke, acid, meth, salvia. Shit that will kill you.

We just smoke weed. Shit that makes us relaxed.

ItsMillerTime
03-18-2015, 04:02 PM
I like how white people deny that they're worse stoners than black people.

Y'all do coke, acid, meth, salvia. Shit that will kill you.

We just smoke weed. Shit that makes us relaxed.

:biggums:

Raymone
03-18-2015, 04:02 PM
Yeah, black people hate cocaine.

Joyner82reload
03-18-2015, 04:06 PM
I like how white people deny that they're worse stoners than black people.

Y'all do coke, acid, meth, salvia. Shit that will kill you.

We just smoke weed. Shit that makes us relaxed.

Probably due to the high cost of cocaine...and white trash uses meth, blacks use crack.

And anyway, anyone that is older than 20 years old that uses marijuana regularly for recreational use is likely a piece of shit anyway.

RightToCensor
03-18-2015, 04:07 PM
The only black cokeheads are ones that lived through the 1970s and 1980s where the drug was popular. Today's black man doesn't use that shit, just sell it (unless you're homeless :biggums:)

Raymone
03-18-2015, 04:09 PM
Drug dealers are lesser evils than drug users?

Joyner82reload
03-18-2015, 04:12 PM
Drug dealers are lesser evils than drug users?

No Drug users=No Drug dealers

By in large, drug dealers(outside of the big one's that run territory) don't commit violent crimes. It's the drug users that commit violent crimes so that they can get money to afford drugs.

Bigsmoke
03-19-2015, 04:03 PM
I like how white people deny that they're worse stoners than black people.

Y'all do coke, acid, meth, salvia. Shit that will kill you.

We just smoke weed. Shit that makes us relaxed.

I used to live across the street from a crackhead and she was black.

Her dad sold the house and she moved to Englewood of all places

Budadiiii
03-19-2015, 04:04 PM
I like how white people deny that they're worse stoners than black people.

Y'all do coke, acid, meth, salvia. Shit that will kill you.

We just smoke weed. Shit that makes us relaxed.
Sit around smoking blunts and playing 2K all day.

Relaxed? What are you relaxing from? You don't work.

Cactus-Sack
03-19-2015, 08:48 PM
Are black really gonna continue to blame the white man for the fact that they are behind in every measurable metric of success in the US?

Despite all the welfare, quotas, affirmative action and other programs designed to give them a "leg up" there is still an overwhelming victim complex

Heilige
03-20-2015, 12:18 AM
Are black really gonna continue to blame the white man for the fact that they are behind in every measurable metric of success in the US?

Despite all the welfare, quotas, affirmative action and other programs designed to give them a "leg up" there is still an overwhelming victim complex


Why do yo feel they are behind in every measurable metric of success in the US?

What are your thoughts on the video?

Cactus-Sack
03-20-2015, 01:05 AM
Why do yo feel they are behind in every measurable metric of success in the US?

What are your thoughts on the video?

I think that the various drawbacks on blacks are cancelled out by the many things that favour them.

Smoke117
03-20-2015, 01:21 AM
I like how white people deny that they're worse stoners than black people.

Y'all do coke, acid, meth, salvia. Shit that will kill you.

We just smoke weed. Shit that makes us relaxed.

You're the public negro spokesman for drug abuse then? :rolleyes:

The Iron Sheik
03-20-2015, 01:24 AM
I think that the various drawbacks on blacks are cancelled out by the many things that favour them.

welfare, food stamps and other things of the like weren't invented for black people. the only mandates created specifically for blacks were for things that white people already had, like the right to vote.

ace23
03-20-2015, 02:02 AM
I think that the various drawbacks on blacks are cancelled out by the many things that favour them.
You didn't answer the first question.

Raymone
03-20-2015, 02:54 AM
welfare, food stamps and other things of the like weren't invented for black people.

Affirmative action, Ricci v. DeStefano, racial quotas in colleges, scholarships for black people.

Dresta
03-20-2015, 08:40 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JENCxjbARFM

It's been a failure - just admit it smh.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul0q35mrHh8