Gangi points to bias in law enforcement, citing data that shows while stop - and - frisks or arrests for certain offenses may be down, racial disparities remain, with people of color stopped or arrested far more
often than white people.
Not exact matches
And, as she connected founders and investors, she saw that more
often than not, it was the
white male founders she helped that received the most opportunities: «It became clear really fast that there were certain
people who were not getting meetings, even if they had a really great company.»
Research shows high dealer markups
often disproportionately affect nonwhite
people — in other words, car dealers charge black and Latino buyers higher interest markups
than they do
white buyers.
People of color
often come to this work more worn down
than white folks because we bring with us the exhaustion that comes with feeling the lifelong effects of everyday racism from the rest of society.
Poorer, less well - educated
white people refuse surveys more
often than affluent, better - educated whites.
Nor does «Colorism» (i.e., «yella» and half -
white black
people valued more in the black world
than black - skinned
people), which
often separates black women from each other.
They are so noticeable because more
often than not black
people age much better
than white folk, Oriental do too (less wrinkles and smoother skin), so for me it is suspicious seeing a supposedly teenage kid who looks to gone well past puberty (still I know there will be the exception).
So I think the other part of that that's interesting is that
often we see abuse in movies and it feels very much like he is this very black and
white... it's very black and
white in terms of him being portrayed as this villain, but I think the reason that there is a cycle of abuse sometimes in relationships and
people keep coming back, is because it is much more complicated
than that.
Because as you so astutely noted, a lot of the
people in positions of privilege (i.e.
white westerners) see the world through a different lens
than a
person of colour (especially folks like me who are the children of immigrants, are
often «othered» in their adopted lands, and have a very different relationships with travel).
More
often than not,
people don't get their
white picket fence or their secret lair.
When Caribbean migrants arrived in the UK in the 1950s and 60s, their reception, generally lukewarm at best, was such that rather
than ingratiating themselves to their
white British counterparts, they felt more comfortable creating there own social environments — including black churches, black bars and dancehalls, and black barbershops,
often in
people's homes.
The findings revealed that
white people who were born and lived their adult lives in what is
often referred to as «the stroke belt» were 45 percent more likely to die of a stroke in the 1980 group, 29 percent more likely in the 1990 group and 34 percent more likely in the 2000 group
than those who were born and lived outside the seven Southern states.