@IwantRooseveltagainit’s the financial status of the people using the drug.Categorically false. Poor Black immigrants show less crack cocaine usage than poor white Americans. It's not an issue of poverty. It's an issue of culture.
Poor Black immigrants show less crack cocaine usage than poor white Americans. It's not an issue of poverty. It's an issue of culture.
Just like hard liquor is more dangerous than beer.
Just like hard liquor is more dangerous than beer.That's not what you proposed though. Hard liquor doesn't make a person more violent than beer.
Potency was the point/issue I was addressing with this example. Potency.
The only color that matters in the private sector is green.
This depends on the definition of white privilege. For the purposes of my response, I will be using the following definition from Merriam Websters Dictionary:"the set of social and economic advantages that white people have by virtue of their race (see RACE entry 1 sense 1a) in a culture characterized by racial inequality." [1]The crux of this definition relies on privileges being tied SOLELY to a racial advantage. E.G. getting or having special treatment due to skin color.The fact of the matter is, such treatment exists. But it is not systemic.
That being said, I saw far more "advantages" and "special treatment" for people of color in the Army than any given towards whites.
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@TWS1405That being said, I saw far more "advantages" and "special treatment" for people of color in the Army than any given towards whites.Hmmm, what percentage of the officers in the Army were black?
Well... Rosa Parks was dismissed for standing for herself by sitting down a front seat meant for White people, so obviously it did exist.
After passing the "separate but equal" act in the 19th century, the water fountain drank by Black people were in stripped condition compared to the ones drank by White people.
Minorities were not allowed to run in some occupations back then, or are probably strongly voted against. White privilege is not a myth. It is a part of American history at least.
As a white person, many crimes I may commit will net much lower prison sentences than if I were black.
- Teachers are more likely to label black students as troublemakers than they are white students with the same number of infractions: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/eleases/teachers-more-likely-to-label-black-students-as-troublemakers.html
- Researchers reported that teachers asked to rate students’ academic abilities scored Black children far below white peers with identical scores: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/du-bois-review-social-science-research-on-race/article/unequal-returns-to-childrens-efforts/F3F39A2BCA0CC35CA27029E725928C12
- Black students are more likely to attend schools with inexperienced or low-paid teachers. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED581117.pdf
- Black boys raised in America, even in the wealthiest families and living in some of the most well-to-do neighborhoods, still earn less in adulthood than white boys with similar backgrounds: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-class-white-and-black-men.html?mtrref=undefined&gwh=4075444A1D97B6EB0BDB191538718DEE&gwt=pay&assetType=REGIWALL
- Blacks are only slightly more than half as likely to receive consideration by employers relative to equally qualified white applicants: https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/pager/files/race_at_work.pdf
- Black employment in the testing sector is suppressed in the absence of testing, a finding which is consistent with ex ante discrimination on the basis of drug use perceptions. https://www.nber.org/papers/w20095#fromrss
- Black borrowers are at greater risk of receiving higher-rate loans than white borrowers, even after controlling for legitimate risk factors: https://www.responsiblelending.org/mortgage-lending/research-analysis/rr011-Unfair_Lending-0506.pdf
- Black home buyers are 105 and 78 percent more likely to have high cost mortgages for home purchases even after controlling for credit score and other key risk factors: https://ww.nber.org/papers/w22004
- Compared to white people, black people are less likely to receive preventive health services and often receive lower-quality care: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletter-article/2018/sep/focus-reducing-racial-disparities-health-care-confronting
- A substantial number of white laypeople and medical students and residents hold false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites and demonstrates that these beliefs predict racial bias in pain perception and treatment recommendation accuracy: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4843483/
- White defendants are twenty-five percent more likely than black defendants to have their principal initial charge dropped or reduced to a lesser crime. White defendants with no prior convictions receive charge reductions more often than black defendants with no prior convictions: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3036726
- Black offenders get longer sentences than white for similar history and crimes. https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/demographic-differences-sentencing
- Black people are more likely to got to jail for drugs despite similar rates of usage. http://www.justicepolicy.org/uploads/justicepolicy/documents/vortex.pdf
- Black Americans are disproportionately affected by police shootings. https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/05/28/police-shootings-black-americans-disproportionately-affected-infographic/#24e8b51459f7
Chinese privilege? Muslim privilege? Jewish privilege? Never heard of them.
There is a substantial list of disparities between whites and blacks. Educational attainment, unemployment, health, poverty, you name it - the list is as long as my arm.There are two explanations for these disparities:1.) Whites and Blacks are subject to different social conditions and constraints that lead to one being advantages over the other.2.) Whites and blacks are subject to identical social conditions and constraints - but black people do worse because they’re not as good as whites.(1) is white privilege. (2) is white supremacy.
Here's an interesting one: Using a police training video game, the effect of ethnicity on shoot/don't shoot decisions was examined. African American or White targets, holding guns or other objects, appeared in complex backgrounds. Participants were told to "shoot" armed targets and to "not shoot" unarmed targets. In Study 1, White participants made the correct decision to shoot an armed target more quickly if the target was African American than if he was White, but decided to "not shoot" an unarmed target more quickly if he was White. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12500813/
->@TWS1405There is a substantial list of disparities between whites and blacks. Educational attainment, unemployment, health, poverty, you name it - the list is as long as my arm.There are two explanations for these disparities:1.) Whites and Blacks are subject to different social conditions and constraints that lead to one being advantages over the other.2.) Whites and blacks are subject to identical social conditions and constraints - but black people do worse because they’re not as good as whites.(1) is white privilege. (2) is white supremacy.
Everyone born in America has equal rights, equal access to anything and everything they want to achieve. There is no right or guarantee to equal outcomes. One only gets out of life what they put into it. Just because you are not as good as another =/= supremacy of any kind.
Racist: a person who believes in racism, the doctrine that one's own racial group is superior or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
White Supremacy: the belief, theory, or doctrine that white people are inherently superior to people from all other racial and ethnic groups, especially Black people, and are therefore rightfully the dominant group in any society
what are your proposed solutions ?
