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I am told this is the clip that Kanye saw and loved. It’s sad actually. For him and for her. A market has always and will always exist for men and women like this who say what bigoted white folk love to hear. They will always have a seat at somebody’s table.https://twitter.com/realcandaceo/status/987450257159077888 …
1. It appears @KanyeWest & @RealCandaceO believe that the #BlackLivesMatter
Movement is not based on the facts of racism, but a peculiar need to focus on the past, and, in their words "whine & get attention."
What follows is a fact based THREAD on #WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter
2. This year is on pace to be the deadliest year for police brutality EVER measured.
We’re not imagining this crisis. It’s being lived out by families all over the country.
SOURCE: https://injusticetoday.com/data-shows-police-brutality-in-america-is-getting-worse-2018-could-be-the-most-deadly-in-years-90c9fa503580 …
#WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter
3. 104 fully unarmed African Americans were killed by police in 2015. That’s more than any single year of lynching in America in over 100 years. The average per year in Jim Crow was 38.
SOURCE: https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/unarmed/
SOURCE: https://qz.com/726245/more-black-people-were-killed-by-us-police-in-2015-than-were-lynched-in-the-worst-year-of-jim-crow/ …
#WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter
4. Unarmed African Americans are at least twice as likely to be shot & killed by police as unarmed white Americans. This isn't whining - this is a factual racial disparity.
SOURCE: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/01/black-americans-killed-by-police-analysis …
#WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter
5. The deadliest hate crime against African Americans did not take place in the 1940s or 50s or 60s, but happened in 2015, on our watch, when Dylann Roof walked into a Charleston church and slaughtered 9 innocent people.
SOURCE: https://www.postandcourier.com/archives/hate-crime-may-be-s-c-s-deadliest/article_e497a73e-e6f3-5d08-a432-2f52664572df.html …
#WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter
6. Hate crimes are drastically increasing in the United States – with the majority of violent attacks still against African Americans.
SOURCE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hate-in-america-is-on-the-rise/2017/11/25/33808364-c94d-11e7-8321-481fd63f174d_story.html …
#WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter
7. In 1960 fewer than 200,000 people were incarcerated in all of the United States. Today, several states have more than that. Our nation has more people and higher rates of incarceration than any nation in the world.
SOURCE: http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-population-total?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All …
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8. African Americans are exponentially more likely to be wrongly convicted (and executed) for crimes they never committed.
SOURCE: https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/07/politics/blacks-wrongful-convictions-study/index.html …
SOURCE: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/us/wrongful-convictions-race-exoneration.html …
SOURCE: https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/Race-and-Wrongful-Convictions.aspx …
#WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter
9. The disparity in mortality rates between black & white women giving birth are wider now than they were at the end of slavery.
SOURCE: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/magazine/black-mothers-babies-death-maternal-mortality.html …
#WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter
10. Home & Mortgage lenders have now paid hundreds of millions of dollars in fees to African Americans with the exact same credit scores & incomes that they gave higher interest rates to than whites.
SOURCE: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-toyota-caught-racist-interest-rate-practices-article-1.2520118 …
#WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter
11. Black children 4x as likely to suspended from school than whites for the exact same mistakes & misbehaviors.
SOURCE: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/06/07/black-students-nearly-4x-likely-suspended/85526458/ …
#WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter
12. Black girls 2x as likely to be suspended from school than whites for the exact same mistakes & misbehaviors… in every single state.
SOURCE: https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2017-05-09/black-girls-are-twice-as-likely-to-be-suspended-in-every-state …
#WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter
13. Whites use drugs at the same rate as Blacks and actually sell drugs at a higher rate.
African Americans are just exponentially more likely to be held criminally responsible for this.
SOURCE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/30/white-people-are-more-likely-to-deal-drugs-but-black-people-are-more-likely-to-get-arrested-for-it/?utm_term=.d20b65827f3e …
#WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter
14. Police pull Black drivers over more. Search them more and STILL find less illegal contraband, including drugs and guns, than they do on white drivers. Black drivers still arrested more anyway.
SOURCE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/27/police-are-searching-black-drivers-more-often-but-finding-more-illegal-stuff-with-white-drivers-2/ …
#WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter
15. African Americans WITH college degrees twice as likely to be unemployed as all other college graduates.
SOURCE: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/african-americans-with-college-degrees-are-twice-as-likely-to-be-unemployed-as-other-graduates/430971/ …
#WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter
16. White high school drop outs get same rate of job offers as black college students.
SOURCE: https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2014/06/27/white-high-school-drop-outs-are-as-likely-to-land-jobs-as-black-college-students/ …
#WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter
17. Black Harvard grads get the same rate of job callbacks as white state college graduates.
SOURCE: https://qz.com/357445/black-harvard-graduates-have-the-same-shot-at-a-job-call-back-as-white-state-college-grads/ …
#WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter
18. Anti-Black hiring discrimination of equally qualified candidates is the same today as it was in 1989. It has not improved even 1% in 20 years.
SOURCE: https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/9/18/16307782/study-racism-jobs …
#WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter
If you are ever searching for sources on racism & discrimination & bigotry in America, I wrote 637 different articles during my time @NYDailyNews.
They are each well-sourced with multiple links and hardcore information.http://www.nydailynews.com/authors?author=Shaun-King …
I’m just so confused- don’t you want people thinking this way - to keep moving forward and making things better???
Of course. But acting like nothing is happening to black ppl is illogical.
Understood man. Just wish it was less semantics & “he said, she said” and more how the heck is this going to get better?
True. She made good points about the democratic party. But saying our grandparents are the ones who went through it as if we arent effected by what they went through today is ignorant. She can do better understanding generational wealth and whats past down through generations.
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