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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

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