Black Devils and Racial Supremacy
Migration and slave trade
routes from Europe
White slaves picking cotton -- 1853
White
Slaves
1858
Wealthy Black businessmen in NYC -- 1859
Middle Class
Black Family
1860
U.S. Civil War
“Protecting our heritage”
Reconstruction -- 1865 - 1890
Jim Crow Laws – and forced segregation
1890 - 1964
Ku Klux Klan
1925
25,000 KKK
members
marched in
Washington, DC
67,000 - NYC
100 - NYC
12 percent
- 7,000
“Anyone can be successful in the United States because this is the land of freedom.”
47 percent of white families lived below the poverty line
1964
Beginning of
the Civil Rights
Movement
“We’re all equal now. We all have equal chances to succeed.”
PAST Change in Household Wealth�(everything people own – retirement accounts, homes, cars)
Pew Research Center
FUTURE Change in Household Wealth�Retirement accounts, homes, cars, second homes –�if nothing changes in wealth patterns in next 30 years
Pew Research Center
Median Family Wealth
Pew Research Center
Unemployment Rates by Race
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Life Expectancy by Ancestry
Center for Disease Control - 2015
the job �interview
The most desirable applicant is a black guy without a record. Who was the second most desirable applicant?
“The Mark of a Criminal”�Percent Receiving Callbacks
Black
White
�Researchers sent out 5,000 resumes that were identical except for the name.�
Group One -- A
Group Two -- B
�Researchers sent out 5,000 resumes that were identical except for the name.�
Group One -- A
Group Two -- B
50% more responses
Percent who say they’ve been “treated unfairly in a public place” (past month)
Whites: 53 percent
Blacks: 15 percent
“Anti-black bias is worse than anti-white bias.”
U.S. Population - 2016� ��Black – 195 million (61%)��White – 39 million (12%)
Male Incarceration Rates by Race�(Number of people in prison per 100,000 in that group in 2010)
Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2010
White people are 3.5 times more likely than Black people to be killed by the police
Percent of people aged 12-25 years of age who sell drugs��Blacks: 6.6 percent�Whites: 5.0 percent
National Survey on Drug Use and Health - 2012
Illegal Drug Use and Incarceration Rates in the United States
Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2012
Illegal Drug Use and Incarceration Rates in the United States
Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2012
White
Whites
Blacks
response rate to resumes sent to over 1,000 potential employers for real jobs
Data: M. Gaddis in Oxford Journals and Social Forces
Black Applicants White Applicants
Florida - population��55 percent Black�16 percent White�25 percent Hispanic/Latino�3 percent Asian�1 percent mixed or Nat. Am.
Racial Disparities Among Male �Youth in Florida 2008 – 2013
Human Rights Watch
“educated” or “ignorant”
Sage Journals, Avi Ben-Zeev, et al., 2014