Or so he claims
and he's not allowed to even have a Twitter or Facebook account, even though I can, and I'm not a billionaire.
Because he abused the terms of service and was banned from those sites. Not that that did anything to diminish his influence. Who do you think has more influence overall, you or him? If you were to ask 1000 random people off the street, who do you think more of them would have heard of, him or you? Pretty bad example there.
Buy friends and buy twitter followers? Rather than choosing to have less, perhaps the billionaire just doesn’t choose to have more.
What does that even mean? You're just playing word games now.
We’re not talking about Asians, we’re talking about Black people
The point is that the phenomena exists. Do you think it only happens to Asians and never Blacks? I gave more links with examples of black name discrimination later in the post too.
I noticed they didn't mention examples of black sounding names, but the did mention “white sounding” names and they gave examples like Emily Walsh, and Greg Baker. Though I don't know anyone with the last name of Walsh, I do know a black woman named Emily, a black man named Greg, and a black person with the sat name of Baker; hardly white sounding names.
They did give examples. They were right there in the parts I directly quoted.
A job applicant with a name that sounds like it might belong to an African-American - say, Lakisha Washington or Jamal Jones
Emphasis mine.
They should have compared names like Blyjoski, Burgdorf, Chapochnikov, (I know white people with those names) to names like Williams, Thompson, or Baker; (I know black people with those names) they should compare foreign sounding names vs American names, because due to slavery, most native blacks have American sounding names, but many whites do not.
Perhaps there have been studies done on that too, or there could be, but that's beside the point. The data shows that job applicants with names that are more traditionally associate with African-Americans are treated unfavorably.
The same way boys suspended at a higher rate is not an example of sexism.
Then what is your argument? Are you trying to say that blacks are genetically predisposed to behave worse?
I disagree; I think considering the circumstances, race relations are pretty good.
That's fine. The majority of those polled disagree. You tried to say that the poll questions were not about institutional racism, I was pointing out otherwise.
Again we're just talking about what the results of the poll are. But if you want to go into details, here's
some.
A social scientist of any sophistication recognizes that societies are not amalgams of unrelated individuals creating themselves anew–out of whole cloth, as it were–in each generation. A complex web of social connections and a long train of historical influences interact to form the opportunities and shape the outlooks of individuals. Of course, individual effort is important, as is native talent and sheer luck, for determining how well or poorly a person does in life. But social background, cultural affinities, and communal influence are also of great significance. This is the grain of truth in the conservatives’ insistence that cultural differences lie at the root of racial inequality in America. But the deeper truth is that, for some three centuries now, the communal experience of the slaves and their descendants has been shaped by political, social, and economic institutions that, by any measure, must be seen as oppressive. When we look at “underclass culture” in the American cities of today we are seeing a product of that oppressive history. It is morally obtuse and scientifically naive to say, in the face of the despair, violence, and self-destructive folly of these people, that “if they would get their acts together, like the poor Asian immigrants, then we would not have such a horrific problem in our cities.”
The only decent response in the face of the “pathological” behavior of American history’s losers is to conclude that, while we cannot change our ignoble past, we must not be indifferent to the contemporary suffering that is linked to that past. The self-limiting patterns of behavior among poor blacks “which some commentators are so quick to trot out” are a product, not of some alien cultural imposition upon a pristine Euro-American canvas, but, rather, of social, economic, and political practices deeply rooted in American history. We should not ignore the behavioral problems of the underclass, but we should discuss and react to them as if we were talking about our own children, neighbors, and friends. This is an American tragedy, to which we should respond as we might to an epidemic of teen suicide, adolescent drunken driving, or HIV infection among homosexual males–that is, by embracing, not demonizing, the victims.
How the legacy of slavery affects the mental health of black Americans today
What rights do whites have that blacks do not?
Once again, these are just the subjects of the poll in question. My point was not to prove that they are true, but that the majority of those polled believed them to be true.
But as for your question, you won't find a law that explicitly says 'white people can do X and black people can't', but rather you'll find many laws and informal policies that disproportionately favor white people over black people.
Systematic Inequality - Center for American Progress
Several key factors exacerbate this vicious cycle of wealth inequality. Black households, for example, have far less access to tax-advantaged forms of savings, due in part to a long history of employment discrimination and other discriminatory practices. A well-documented history of mortgage market discrimination means that blacks are significantly less likely to be homeowners than whites,3 which means they have less access to the savings and tax benefits that come with owning a home. Persistent labor market discrimination and segregation also force blacks into fewer and less advantageous employment opportunities than their white counterparts.4 Thus, African Americans have less access to stable jobs, good wages, and retirement benefits at work5— all key drivers by which American families gain access to savings. Moreover, under the current tax code, families with higher incomes receive increased tax incentives associated with both housing and retirement savings.6 Because African Americans tend to have lower incomes, they inevitably receive fewer tax benefits—even if they are homeowners or have retirement savings accounts. The bottom line is that persistent housing and labor market discrimination and segregation worsen the damaging cycle of wealth inequality.
In order for institutional racism to exist, the institution itself has to be racist, not just the individuals working within the institution. Take a Police department as an example of the institution. In order for there to be institutional racism, the institution of law enforcement itself, or that specific jurisdiction must be created in such a manner that the institution will remain racist no matter the person(s) holding positions within it.
In short -- If you are given free reign to remove all officers within that jurisdiction, and replace them with a new group of people, hand chosen by you; would said racism remain?
If removing / replacing the variables from the system, in this case the officers, would cleanse the system of racism, then institutional racism does not exist. However, if you remove / replace all variables within the system with new variables known to be non-corrupt from the systems intention (in this case if you replace all cops with people known to not be racist), yet the system remains corrupt (racist here), then institutional racism exists
I disagree with that definition of institutional racism. It's as much a cultural thing as anything else. If every law says to treat groups X and Y equally, but group X is the majority, they have most of the wealth, power, and influence, and prejudice and negative stereotypes about group Y are common, then group Y is going to be worse off in that kind of society.
What’s stopping them from moving to trailer parks?
Poor people can't move out of the ghetto because it takes a significant amount of money to relocate. They already spent all of their money on other bills. They cannot save any money to move. They can't just go and get a different job. To do that would mean taking time to search for a job. Much of their time is already used up somehow. Poor people spend more money buying the same things that wealthy people buy.
Let's say you buy a car, how do you do that? You go to the bank and get a loan preapproved and then you go down to the car lot and choose your car. They try to get you to choose something outside your price range but you hold to what you can afford. You pay for the car with the loan from your bank with a reasonable interest rate.
The poor person goes to the car lot and gets turned down as soon as they check his credit. He just wasted an entire day at a car lot with an aggressive salesman. So next weekend he goes to the place that swears they will finance anyone. He gets conned into buying the same car you bought, but he gets an enormous interest rate and after five years (if he makes it that long without getting it repossessed) he will have paid three times the money you paid.
When you need toilet paper or soap or toothpaste or dishwasher detergent, you might go to Costco and buy it in bulk. The poor person can't afford to spend $15 on toilet paper, that would cut into the electricity bill this month. So he buys it at Walmart for $3. Never mind the fact that you got 36 rolls and he got 4, he had zero at home and needed it now. He has to go with what he can get.
At the store you might use your debit card, the poor guy has no bank account because he is poor. He has no debit card. Try to go all cash for a couple months to see what it's like. You will notice that some things just aren't the same. Your paycheck now costs you money just to get your money. Some places won't accept cash payments. They will not allow you to use cash to pay bills that if you don't pay they will charge you late fees on. So you have to pay for a money order and stamps to mail it to them because you can't do a money transfer from your account.
Most poor people have children who they are responsible for. They can't afford daycare without a job. But with the job they lose their welfare check. They end up getting less money with a job and daycare payments than if they had no job. And never mind the fact that the daycare won't accept their kids if they haven't held a job continuously for a while already.
So the guy who just doesn't want to work yet can who has no children or other bills can probably do something for himself. But wait, maybe he can't either. He isn't getting welfare. He gets nothing in the way of government support. He might be getting EBT food but that's it. He can't even afford to ride the bus to an area where he can apply for a job. You might ask why he doesn't work from home. How would he do that without a computer?
Black people are not like a prosthetic arm
Not at all what I said. I said affirmative action was like a prosthetic arm.
we don’t need those things to succeed. If Immigrant Nigerians can get off the boat and not only outperform black people, but out perform white people as well, than so can we if we had the desire to do so.
They don't suffer the lingering consequences of hundreds of years of racial oppression like African Americans do.
