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 ...
You can argue that the fact that blacks commit crimes at 10x the rate of whites is evidence of racism, but that would open the door to a legitimate criticism of black culture as the source of the racism. And we know that blacks must never EVER be accused of complicity in their own failures or held accountable for their own shortcomings. All deficiencies in the black experience must be laid at the white man’s door.
So periodically you see these kinds of sophomoric screeds about white privilege and witness logical gymnastics that would put an Olympian to shame, all in order to deflect even the smallest blame from where it truly belongs.
Blacks MUST be kept “victims!”
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Don’t care....
Howard??
Proof?
I didn't know ducks were allowed to write in College newspapers.
The bird seems to have skipped high school math...
To say nothing of logic.
* Hey moron, it can also prove that black people proportionally commit 6 times the number of serious felonies that white people do.
As ambiguous a statement as I have ever seen.
For the burdener? or the burdenee?
The need to treat black men as the white men’s burden. Like humanity could not ever progress past this point.
The only racism that is officially approved by government agencies is Affirmative Action (against white men).
This could also be renamed SES privilege. I always think of the comedy film Ted...where the go through a list of “white trash” names to guess the new love interests moniker. Let’s just say, a higher SES minority and a higher SES majority citizen would choose different names than someone of lower SES in any race or ethnicity.
More rationally, it is about black students averaging hundreds of SAT score points below those of whites and Asians, for the same degree. (And have been protected from low and failing grades through college.) How surprising is it that resume reviewers factor that in to their comparative assessment of qualifications?
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