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Racism isn’t over
by confuzzled dude Mon Dec 02, 2013 9:04 am
"Today we remember Rosa Parks’ bold stand and her role in ending racism," tweeted the Republican National Committee's official account. Whoops.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/12/01/racism-isnt-over-but-policymakers-from-both-parties-like-to-pretend-it-is/?tid=auto_complete
"It suggests that changing government policy changes all the attitudes that led to that policy, and all the social arrangements that were built around that policy. It's a view often held by conservatives, which is odd, because it requires a tremendous belief in the government's power to cleanly reshape whole societies."
"Much government action remains, shall we say, racially uneven, even if the underlying law has become colorblind. Take marijuana policy. Statute makes no distinction between marijuana usage by blacks and whites. And usage among blacks and whites is very similar But arrests are not"
"Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan sent more than 5,000 fake résumés in response to more than 1,300 "help wanted" ads in the Chicago area. The résumés were similar in every respect save one: the names of the job applicants. Bertrand and Mullainathan gave some applicants stereotypically caucasian names (Emily Walsh) and and some applicants stereotypically African American names (Lakisha Washington). "The authors find that applicants with white-sounding names are 50 percent more likely to get called for an initial interview than applicants with African-American-sounding names."
"And, yes, people alive today benefit from much that happened in their great-grandparents' time. Wealth is passed down through generations, and quite a lot of racist policy in the United States was designed to help white Americans amass wealth by stopping African Americans from doing so, or, in some cases, by directly taking the wealth of African Americans. Today's wealth gap is, in part, the legacy of the country's past, and it has winners as well as losers."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/12/01/racism-isnt-over-but-policymakers-from-both-parties-like-to-pretend-it-is/?tid=auto_complete
"It suggests that changing government policy changes all the attitudes that led to that policy, and all the social arrangements that were built around that policy. It's a view often held by conservatives, which is odd, because it requires a tremendous belief in the government's power to cleanly reshape whole societies."
"Much government action remains, shall we say, racially uneven, even if the underlying law has become colorblind. Take marijuana policy. Statute makes no distinction between marijuana usage by blacks and whites. And usage among blacks and whites is very similar But arrests are not"
"Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan sent more than 5,000 fake résumés in response to more than 1,300 "help wanted" ads in the Chicago area. The résumés were similar in every respect save one: the names of the job applicants. Bertrand and Mullainathan gave some applicants stereotypically caucasian names (Emily Walsh) and and some applicants stereotypically African American names (Lakisha Washington). "The authors find that applicants with white-sounding names are 50 percent more likely to get called for an initial interview than applicants with African-American-sounding names."
"And, yes, people alive today benefit from much that happened in their great-grandparents' time. Wealth is passed down through generations, and quite a lot of racist policy in the United States was designed to help white Americans amass wealth by stopping African Americans from doing so, or, in some cases, by directly taking the wealth of African Americans. Today's wealth gap is, in part, the legacy of the country's past, and it has winners as well as losers."
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