Whenever I hear people say that America is no longer a racist nation, I go back to what they said and I listen carefully to what they say later, odd that most cannot even see themselves.
"In other words, we police black communities more heavily and we are more aggressive about enforcing drug laws against drugs that black people use more frequently. Controlling for those facts isn't helping you isolate the role racial discrimination plays in drug enforcement. Those facts are the role that racial discrimination plays in drug enforcement."
"In some ways, what's amazing about many of these studies is that they show a racial effect even after controlling for so much of racism's work. They show that racism exists even in our control society — the one with equality of income, and education, and neighborhood, and car choices. The one where we've wiped out most every difference but pigment. The one where we've left ourselves no excuses for our prejudice. It is remarkable how much discrimination can survive."
'How racial discrimination in law enforcement actually works' Ezra Klein
How racial discrimination in law enforcement actually works - Vox
And these:
'Asked and Answered: Reflections on White Anti-Racism, My Work and Certain Recurring Critiques'
Tim Wise Asked and Answered Reflections on White Anti-Racism My Work and Certain Recurring Critiques
"In an interesting new survey, the Public Religion Research Institute found that 10 percent of Americans believe business owners should be able to refuse to serve black people if they see that as a violation of their religious beliefs. This was pretty much the same across regions, too; the Northwest and the Midwest had slightly higher percentages than the South and the West. Gen X-ers, not old people, were most likely to agree — 13 percent said they support the right to refuse. Men were slightly more likely to agree than women, and Catholics slightly more likely than Protestants. Hispanics were the biggest outlier by far: 18 percent agreed with the right to refuse service to blacks." Racism Lives On Under the Cover of Religious Freedom - The Atlantic
'The Real Origins of the Religious Right' "They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation."
Randall Balmer May 27, 2014 Read more: The Real Origins of the Religious Right - Randall Balmer - POLITICO Magazine
"Racism is not about how you look, it is about how people assign meaning to how you look." Robin D.G. Kelley
"Our society seems remarkably uninterested in addressing the conditions that lead to such disparities in criminal offending. Black-white crime disparities would be much smaller if black-white employment and wealth disparities were smaller. Yet these crime disparities—often exaggerated in people’s minds—can easily undermine the sense of empathy and social connectedness we need to mobilize political support for measures that reduce these root-cause disparities." from above OP
"In other words, we police black communities more heavily and we are more aggressive about enforcing drug laws against drugs that black people use more frequently. Controlling for those facts isn't helping you isolate the role racial discrimination plays in drug enforcement. Those facts are the role that racial discrimination plays in drug enforcement."
"In some ways, what's amazing about many of these studies is that they show a racial effect even after controlling for so much of racism's work. They show that racism exists even in our control society — the one with equality of income, and education, and neighborhood, and car choices. The one where we've wiped out most every difference but pigment. The one where we've left ourselves no excuses for our prejudice. It is remarkable how much discrimination can survive."
'How racial discrimination in law enforcement actually works' Ezra Klein
How racial discrimination in law enforcement actually works - Vox
And these:
'Asked and Answered: Reflections on White Anti-Racism, My Work and Certain Recurring Critiques'
Tim Wise Asked and Answered Reflections on White Anti-Racism My Work and Certain Recurring Critiques
"In an interesting new survey, the Public Religion Research Institute found that 10 percent of Americans believe business owners should be able to refuse to serve black people if they see that as a violation of their religious beliefs. This was pretty much the same across regions, too; the Northwest and the Midwest had slightly higher percentages than the South and the West. Gen X-ers, not old people, were most likely to agree — 13 percent said they support the right to refuse. Men were slightly more likely to agree than women, and Catholics slightly more likely than Protestants. Hispanics were the biggest outlier by far: 18 percent agreed with the right to refuse service to blacks." Racism Lives On Under the Cover of Religious Freedom - The Atlantic
'The Real Origins of the Religious Right' "They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation."
Randall Balmer May 27, 2014 Read more: The Real Origins of the Religious Right - Randall Balmer - POLITICO Magazine
"Racism is not about how you look, it is about how people assign meaning to how you look." Robin D.G. Kelley
"Our society seems remarkably uninterested in addressing the conditions that lead to such disparities in criminal offending. Black-white crime disparities would be much smaller if black-white employment and wealth disparities were smaller. Yet these crime disparities—often exaggerated in people’s minds—can easily undermine the sense of empathy and social connectedness we need to mobilize political support for measures that reduce these root-cause disparities." from above OP
