Posted on 09/14/2016 6:45:06 AM PDT by pabianice
... My goal here is to simply explain what white privilege is and to demonstrate that discrimination against black people, both on a small scale and more importantly on a systematic and often-unconscious level, is still a huge issue...
Let’s start with job discrimination. A study published by John Nunley, Nicholas Romero, Richard Seals and Adam Pugh for the Auburn University Department of Economics found that job applicants with “black sounding names” were a whopping 16 percent less likely to get called in to interview for a job than their white counterparts, even when their resumes were otherwise identical.
Housing discrimination is also an issue. A new report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development found that when searching for a new home to rent, black people are shown 17 percent fewer available homes than white people.
The biggest issue is the hugely disproportionate numbers of black citizens (especially black males) who are currently incarcerated. According to the Bureau of Justice, in 2009 black people accounted for 39.4 percent of the prison population while whites accounted for only 34 percent. Blacks make up only 12.3 percent of the American population while whites make up a 63 percent. This means that the incarceration rate for black people is over six times higher than that of white people...
Christin Howard is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at christinhowa@umass.edu.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycollegian.com ...
Liberal math:
1) A disproportionate percentage of the prison population is black. Conclusion: race based.
2) A disproportionate percentage of NBA players are black. Conclusion: merit based.
And... I can testify that great “brains” (IQ) coupled with bad attitude equals mongo trouble.
Tommy Sotomayor has done several videos on this subject, particularly focusing on violence and cruelty by dark-skinned black females against lighter-skinned classmates or acquaintances.
He talks about how black people have many names for lighter-skinned blacks, and for different degrees of melanin content. Words I've never heard before.
Understand, I think. But in general, crueler to their own even than a lot of white people are.
left off the title, and the complete lies of the black movement
It is high time that we characterized these merchants of moral corruption for what they are; high time we recognized the enormous damage they are doing to those they pretend to care about. The worst thing for all of us, is the absurd belief that some sort of apology is needed for family achievement.
The Black to White crime ratio rises with the extent any community accepts the Leftist narrative on race. The White Leftist is the ultimate enemy of legitimate Black progress in America—there is massive evidence of this, but the Leftist media cannot be bothered to develop an honest narrative.
Haven't you heard? IQ tests are culturally biased to keep blacks down! < /libspeak >
Is that a testable hypothesis?
“Or am I supposed to believe that the Police are only looking for black perpetrators ? “
They can’t possibly be looking for black perps. All I ever see as description of perps is either “Teen” or “A Man”
Every time I see “white privilege” I translate it as “Married parents who actually cared about their children Privilege.”
No, 'cause tests are racist! < /sarc >
I see it more as expressing a wish that their children take their place in western society. Most do, some don't.
I know personally ABC (American Born Chinese) children with the names Maggie (Margaret), Luke, Leo, Oliver, Mira, Peggy, Irene, Maddie (Madeline), Hannah, Chris, Katherine, and Michael.
That too. And yours often leads to mine.
The employer is likely reacting to the "black sounding" name in the same way as he or she would react to a job applicant who arrived for his interview wearing a backwards baseball cap and falling-down jeans.
Fair? No, undoubtedly there are thousands of Americans who have "black sounding" names who are great employees.
But many employers know they can't take afford to take the risk of hiring someone who will turn out to be unsuitable ... and who may then haul the employer into federal court with a lawsuit for "discrimination," when actually fired for cause.
You were using the rent/mortgage is no more than 35% of net income rule as the basis for not showing the unit?
If so, I agree it is not racism to ensure the new tenant has the financial stability to pay the rent consistently. That is just good business practice.
As I understand the rules, it could have been racism if you had shown the rental units to whites/other races that had exactly the same incomes you listed.
I know he was local because of his accent.
He went by a very appealing "white" name in the office. I have always thought that he must have taken the name himself, as a conscious decision.
I didn't know him well; I would see him when I went there for meetings with one of his coworkers. But I certainly noticed him, and he impressed me; I've never forgotten him, even though I haven't seen him in fifteen years.
Job applicants with “yellow sounding names” were much more likely to be hired at high tech companies for an average of tens of thousands of dollar MORE per year than blacks.
Also the proportion of 'yellow' people in the prison system relative to their share of the population proves the Court System favors YELLOW people. In short, this article is crap... pure unadulterated bullsh*t... that proves nothing except the indoctrination of the idiot who wrote it.
I don’t hire Laqweeshea...end of story. The smart blacks i work with know that naming your child some hood name brands them......end of discussion.
“You were using the rent/mortgage is no more than 35% of net income rule as the basis for not showing the unit?”
More or less, yes.
Actually, I misspoke; Blank (blank, not Black, sheesh!) apps were sitting on top of a kitchen counter where people who were interested in renting could look and decide to apply or not based upon whether they liked it or not.
So, it wasn’t a matter of “showing” the place; anyone who physically picked up an app “saw” it.
So, where could the (illegal) discrimination come in? One could accuse a landlord who used the enquire > submit app > look sequence if they refused Shaneequa. One could accuse a landlord who used my sequence enquire > visit > submit app of turning down an unacceptable skin color.
This being America, there is no shortage of opportunity for one to be discriminated against.
I would not rent to someone whose rental was 70% of their pay. That’s asking for trouble.
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