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Why Are White People Racist? Real Talk With Amiri


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Even if you believe you are not racist....You are still participating in a racist system reaping the benefits of a racist systme.
And you are doing nothing to  stop it.....

Even within our contemporary moment, those Black “police chiefs, mayors, Cabinet officials, members of Congress, professors, directors of human resources offices, chief executive officers, prison wardens, and president and vice president of the United States” continue to live within a country predicted upon anti-Black racism. Each of those occupied positions mean very little within a context of white supremacy.  a lot of trophies no real power..

https://thefrontierpost.com/why-are-white-people-still-racist/

https://www.salon.com/2015/03/04/10_ways_white_people_are_more_racist_than_they_realize_partner/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/why-do-young-whites-kill-out-of-hate-schools-arent-teaching-nations-racist-past/ar-AAXlINP

1. College professors, across race/ethnicity and gender, are more likely to respond to queries from students they believe are white males.

2. White people, including white children, are less moved by the pain of people of color, including children of color, than by the pain of fellow whites. 


3. White people are more likely to have done illegal drugs than blacks or Latinos, but are far less likely to go to to jail for it.

4. Black men are sentenced to far lengthier prison sentences than white men for the same crimes.

5. White people, including police, see black children as older and less innocent than white children. 

6. Black children are more likely to be tried as adults and are given harsher sentences than white children.

7. White people are more likely to support the criminal justice system, including the death penalty, when they think it’s disproportionately punitive toward black people. 

8. The more "stereotypically black" a defendant looks in a murder case, the higher the likelihood he will be sentenced to death. 

10. A number of studies find white people view lighter-skinned African Americans (and Latinos) as more intelligent, competent, trustworthy and reliable than their darker-skinned peers.

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