Do corporations care about this racial moment?
The short answer is “No,” although it’s a lot more nuanced than that in terms of how the positions flow forth to the public. Continue Reading
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Cops have killed 385 people so far in 2015, but look deeper at the numbers
385 people through five months is basically two people per day getting killed by a police officer somewhere in America, which is twice the rate of the past decade. That’s not good. Before you think it’s all “white cop vs. black, unarmed offender”… Continue Reading
There’s a black America and a white America. They are NOT the same.
From here, which is in turn from here, comes this chart: Pretty hard to look at that and argue whites and blacks have the same experience in this country; 2,207 per 100,000 African-Americans in America are in jail. That’s 2.2… Continue Reading
The Rust Belt sure Googles the word “n*gger” a lot
Via here, and ultimately here: West of the Mississippi is a bastion of non-hate, eh? Well, somewhat I guess. (That’s why it’s a good place to go find a spouse.) The Rust Belt, well … SMDH. It might be a… Continue Reading
Exploring white attitudes on African-Americans in prisons
The whole topic of racial attitudes around incarnation is very fraught — and also very complicated, as entire bodies of research are penned on it across people’s careers. I can’t begin to scratch the surface. I do know this, as… Continue Reading