Can I ask you how you came to this conclusion?
40 years on this earth and being open to talking with people of all walks of life. If we were to stack rank the people who benefit from privileged the least, Mexican immigrants have it WAY worse than you or I.
I said “black people have it way harder than white people”. Not “black people have it the WORST”
I know, but the gap between you and I is not nearly as wide as between you and I and a Mexican immigrant. We're pretty close in the scope of life and history.
But we are not close in the way we are treated in society. At least, not as close as you think. Do I really need to even bother citing a million sources about the disporportionate arrest rates for the same crimes, access to job opportunities and wealth, or will you just disregard that too?
Do you think I disregarded you? I thought we were discussing this. Cite me some reports if you think it'll illuminate me, I'm aware of some of these stats you're talking about.
In 2012, the U. S. Department of Education reported that about 33 percent of all white students attend a low-poverty school, while only 6 percent attend high-poverty schools.
http://www.urban.org/urban-wire/millions-black-students-attend-public-schools-are-highly-segregated-race-and-income. In comparison, only 10 percent of black students attend a low-poverty school, while more than 40 percent of black students attend high-poverty schools.
Young black boys/men, ages 15-19, are 21 times more likely to be to be shot and killed by the police than young white boys/men.
Blacks are less than 13% of the U.S. population, and yet they are 31% of all fatal police shooting victims, and 39% of those killed by police even though they weren’t attacking. See chart:
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In New York City, whites comprise 44% of the population; blacks and Latinos, 53%.
Between 2005 and 2008, 80% of NYPD stops were of blacks and Latinos. Only 10% of stops were of whites.
85% of those frisked were black; only 8% were white. (Blacks and Latinos were frisked 50% of the time; whites, only 34%.)
Under the NYPD’s controversial “stop-and-frisk” program, in every year since 2009, 87% of those stopped-and-frisked were black or Latino. 10% were white.
24% of blacks and Latinos had force used against them by the NYPD, compared to only 17% of whites.
Only 2.6% of all stops (1.6 million stops over 3.5 years) resulted in the discovery of contraband or a weapon. Whites were more likely to be found with contraband or a weapon.
Similar trends are seen in Department of Justice data from Los Angeles between July 2003 and June 2004.
The stop rate for blacks was 3,400 stops per 10,000 residents higher than the white stop rate. The Latino stop rate was 360 stops higher.
Blacks were 127% more likely to get frisked and 76% more likely to get searched than whites; Latinos, 43% more likely to get frisked and 16% more likely to get searched.
And yet, frisked blacks were 42% less likely to be found with a weapon than frisked whites; Latinos, 32% less likely.
Consensual searches of blacks were “37 percent less likely to uncover weapons, 23.7 percent less likely to uncover drugs, and 25.4 percent less likely to uncover any other type of contraband, than consensual searches of Whites.”
Consensual searches of Latinos were “32.8 percent less likely to uncover weapons, 34.3 percent less likely to uncover drugs, and 12.3 percent less likely to uncover any other type of contraband than consensual searches of Whites.”
http://www.civilrights.org/publications/reports/racial-profiling2011/the-reality-of-racial.htmlhttp://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/36/3651000.html
In the late 1990s, black and white women had similar levels of drug use during pregnancy, but black women were 10 times as likely as white women to be reported to child services for prenatal drug use.
Whites are 78% more likely to be accepted to the same university as equally qualified people of color. Emphasis on “equally qualified.”
Once admitted, 71% of white students receive degrees, compared to only 29% of people of color.
When they do graduate, black college graduates have significantly more debt than white graduates.
http://jamietheignorantamerican.tumblr.com/post/72154890106/go-forth-and-educate-yourselveshttp://www.gallup.com/poll/176051/black-college-graduates-likely-graduate-debt.aspxThe U.S. is one of only 3 of the 34 O.E.C.D. nations to give fewer resources and have lower teacher/student ratios in poorer communities than in more privileged communities.
“[T]he vast majority of O.E.C.D. countries either invest equally into every student or disproportionately more into disadvantaged students. The U.S. is one of the few countries doing the opposite.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/business/a-rich-childs-edge-in-public-education.html?pagewanted=allA black college student has the same chances of getting a job as a white high school dropout.
Meanwhile, a white male with a criminal record is 5% more likely to get a job than an equally qualified person of color with a clean record.
Blacks need to complete not one but two more levels of education just to have the same probability of getting a job as a white guy.
http://thinkprogress.org/education/2014/06/25/3452887/education-race-gap/http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/09/study-black-man-and-white-felon-same-chances-for-hire/Pager, Devah, Bruce Western, and Bart Bonikowski. “Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment.” American sociological review 74.5 (2009): 777–799.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2915472/The average net worth of black households is $6,314, compared to $110,500 for the average white household.
While a college-educated white American has an average net worth of $75,000, a college-educated black American has an average net worth of less than $17,500.
The black-white wealth gap is greater in the United States today than it was in South Africa in 1970, at the height of apartheid. We also incarcerate a higher percentage of blacks today than apartheid South Africa did.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-after-ferguson-race-deserves-more-attention-not-less.htmlhttp://jonjeter.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/worse-than-apartheid-black-in-obamas-america-3/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-when-whites-just-dont-get-it-part-2.htmlAccording to a study in Canada, non-white women who go missing receive 27 times less media coverage than white women.
While African American children comprise 33.2% of missing children cases, but only 19.5% of cases reported in the media.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/what-missing-white-woman-syndrome-1441153Blacks and Latinos face housing discrimination an estimated 4 million times each year.
While some of the more blatant forms of housing discrimination have declined in the last 3 decades, overall levels of discrimination remain extremely high.
In 2009, bailed-out banks such as Wells Fargo and many other large banks were found to have pushed minority borrowers who qualified for prime loans into subprime loans, which can add as more than $100,000 in interest payments to a mortgage over the life of the loan.
Subprime loans were given to 41.5% of blacks and 30.9% of Latinos, but only 17.8% of whites.
“Among high-income borrowers in 2006, African Americans were three times as likely as whites to pay higher prices for mortgages—32.1 percent compared to 10.5 percent. Latinos were nearly as likely as African Americans to pay higher prices for their mortgages at 29.1 percent.”
Washington Mutual was the worst: 56.9% of blacks and 42.3% of Latinos paid higher prices, compared to 16.9% of whites.
Wells Fargo and Bank of America (two of the largest U.S. mortgage lenders), and many other banks, have been accused of neglecting foreclosed homes in minority neighborhoods, while maintaining foreclosed homes in white neighborhoods. This depresses the value of that home and the homes around it, hurting everyone in the neighborhood and causing the effects of closure to last longer.
http://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/item/have-you-experienced-housing-discriminationhttp://www.civilrights.org/publications/reports/fairhousing/discrimination-rate.htmlhttp://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/11/16/1203241/bernanke-discriminatory-lending/http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/11/18/372517/latinos-african-americans-housing-crisis/http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2009/09/15/172933/racial-disparities-tarp-banks/http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2014/04/29/3432139/sterling-housing-discrimination/Should I keep going? Because I can. It’s all here:
https://www.thenewprogressive.net/ultimate-white-privilege-statistics/#3
