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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 …
#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/ …
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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/ …
#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/ …
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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 …
#WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter
Bullseye on the truth!!!
You are Sho nuff preaching today! White kids/ teens use drugs and smoke 2 x more than black teens!
Recidivism, look deep and you'll see why.
Don’t forget that the opioid crisis was not an actual “crisis” as long as it only affected the African-American community. It didn’t become a community health issue until white suburbia became addicted.
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