I'm going to paste something I saw here a week ago from /u/Flowah. You should read it, and try to understand how at the very least everyone else is disadvantaged
>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. In addition, race greatly affects how much applicants benefit from having more experience and credentials. White job applicants with higher-quality resumes received 30 percent more callbacks than whites with lower-quality resumes. Having a higher-quality resume has a much smaller impact on African-American applicants, who experienced only 9 percent more callbacks for the same improvement in their credentials. This disparity suggests that in the current state of the labor market, African-Americans may not have strong individual incentives to build better resumes.
>The results of these studies were startling. Among those with no criminal record, white applicants were more than twice as likely to receive a callback relative to equally qualified black applicants. Even more troubling, whites with a felony conviction fared just as well, if not better, than a black applicant with a clean background.
>A study conducted by Major G. Coleman (2003) reports that as black and white men have more similar competitive performance ratings, racial wage differences increase rather than decrease. He also found that black wages are less than white wages in the same industry.[2] When no factors other than race are considered, Coleman predicts the black hourly wage to be $7.49 and the white hourly wage to be $8.92, 19 percent higher than the black hourly wage. When Coleman controlled for human capital, such as education and skills, the difference decreased to 11 percent. Coleman attributed this 11percent difference to racial discrimination.[2]
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>Grodsky and Pager also calculated wage differences, and found blacks to make $3.65 less per hour than whites in the private sector and $2.85 less in the public sector.[11] Using statistical regressions, they found that human capital, region, and marital status account for 55 percent of the wage gap difference. An additional 20 percent of the wage gap was attributed to differences in occupational distributions between blacks and whites. Thus, 25 percent of the wage gap was unaccounted for by their model.[11]
So if you account for things like education, region, marital status, occupational distributions, and you still have a significant portion of the wage gap unexplained, what's the likely scenario?
>An analysis by the NYCLU revealed that innocent New Yorkers have been subjected to police stops and street interrogations more than 5 million times since 2002, and that black and Latino communities continue to be the overwhelming target of these tactics. Nearly nine out of 10 stopped-and-frisked New Yorkers have been completely innocent according to the NYPD’s own reports:
So blacks and minorities make up about 85%+ of those stopped and frisked, but 90% of those stopped and frisked are so innocent of any wrong-doing that they don't even get issued a ticket or a citation. No wonder so many minorities go to prison. They're the only ones being shaken down by cops. I suspect if it was 85% white people being stopped and frisked the cops would find a few more white people to arrest, what do you think?
>The likelihood a stop of an African American New Yorker yielded a weapon was half that of white New Yorkers stopped.
>The likelihood a stop of an African American New Yorker yielded contraband was one-third less than that of white New Yorkers stopped.
So whites carried guns 2x more often and drugs 3x more often but blacks/Latinos are the ones getting stopped. Remember this the next time you trot out some bullshit about "stereotypes being based in fact."
>Black youth are arrested for drug crimes at a rate ten times higher than that of whites. But new research shows that young African Americans are actually less likely to use drugs and less likely to develop substance use disorders, compared to whites, Native Americans, Hispanics and people of mixed race.
So less likely to abuse, but more likely by far to be arrested. Cool. Profiling rules!
>Prison sentences of black men were nearly 20% longer than those of white men for similar crimes in recent years, an analysis by the U.S. Sentencing Commission found. That racial gap has widened since the Supreme Court restored judicial discretion in sentencing in 2005.
This is why sentencing guidelines were introduced. We saw huge disparities in how people were being treated, based on race. Give judges discretion, blacks do more time. Great.
>Just over half of participants who’d seen the mug shots with fewer Black men signed the petition, whereas only 27% of people who viewed the mug shots containing a higher percentage of Black inmates agreed to sign. This was the case regardless of how harsh participants thought the law was.
So, when white people are shown mugshots with lots of black prisoners, they want harsher penalties. But when shown mugshots of mostly white prisoners, they don't. Seems pretty cut and dry racism to me.
>In 2008, 38 percent of state and federal prisoners were Black compared to 34 percent of Whites. Yet, Blacks accounted for 50 percent of the exonerations while Whites accounted for 38 percent of the false convictions.
>only 10.8 percent of speaking characters are Black, 4.2 percent are Hispanic, 5 percent are Asian, and 3.6 percent are from other (or mixed race) ethnicities,
That's 76.4% white. Considering non-Hispanic whites are only ~64% of the country.... Worse when you consider who gets a leading role.
>A study by the Center for Responsible Lending, a nonprofit research group based in North Carolina, examined 50,000 subprime loans nationwide and found that blacks and Hispanics were 30 percent more likely than whites to be charged higher interest rates, even among borrowers with *similar credit ratings. * >In the Middle Village and Ridgewood sections of Queens, both of which have white majorities and had a median income of $47,820 in 2005, 16.7 percent of the loans were issued by subprime lenders. In the Sheepshead Bay and Gravesend areas of Brooklyn, which also are mostly white and had a median income of $40,000, 10.8 percent of the mortgages were from subprime companies. Majority black and Hispanic neighborhoods with median incomes of $40,000 to $50,000 had far higher rates, including East Flatbush, where 44 percent of the loans were from subprime companies, and Queens Village (34.6 percent).
Let's summarize shall we?