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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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/ …
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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 …
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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 …
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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/ …
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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/ …
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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/ …
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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/ …
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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 …
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And the overwhelming, consistent, generic response is "Well, what about Black-on-Black crime?" As if that's a legitimate way to push the conversation forward, or somehow absolve "others" in harming us. This is merely a deflection, plain and simple.
When you add the letter “d” to the word “evil” you have the word “devil” and anyone or thing that becomes evil is a devil.pic.twitter.com/mHCzZrKbgT
hate crimes in your country are increasing thanks to the recent success of your ideology and the identity politics game you're playing - thank god it's over and everyone is waking up. :)
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