The prospects for a better future are nearly hopeless for roughly 20
percent of black people — those who reside in big - city crime - infested and dysfunctional neighborhoods.
An early - morning sweep arrested 16
percent of the black people in my town — more...
An early - morning sweep arrested 16
percent of the black people in my town — more than 70 percent of the town's young black men.
Recent data from the Pew Research Center shows that while only 46 percent of white people say they benefit from advantages black people do not have, 92
percent of black people say white people gain benefits due to their race.
Not exact matches
Two years later, most companies are not faring much better: Consider that Facebook, which has been making an aggressive push to hire more women engineers and
people of color, revealed last month that just 2
percent of its U.S. work force is
black and only 4
percent is Hispanic.
If, for example, a company has a quota
of hiring 30
percent black women and stops when it reaches that number, it risks overlooking
people who might be a great fit the company.
The review found that that played a role in 79
percent of wrongfully convicted sexual assault cases against
black people versus only 51
percent of cases against white
people.
Protestantism in 1934 included the overwhelming majority
of Americans, and today 49
percent of people surveyed tell pollsters they «prefer» various forms
of Protestantism — or 58
percent will do so if one includes
black Protestantism, though we shall see that formally it differs from other Protestant bodies.
White Americans who say they absolutely live in fear
of police brutality are 4
percent of the reporting, compared to
Black people at 16
percent and Hispanics at 14
percent.
In fact, a recent study found that 75
percent of respondents have an unconscious bias toward white
people over
blacks.
Even though
black people make up 40
percent of our nation's missing children, when
black people make up only 13
percent of our population, these missing
persons generate very little media attention.
Among
black people, 36
percent reported that their five closest friends are
black and 31
percent say none
of their five closest friends are white.
Having Kid Rock open a stadium that is supposed to be dedicated to the
people of a city that's more than 80
percent black seemed like an insult.
While marijuana arrests have dropped significantly since the mayor took office, 86
percent of the
people arrested for marijuana possession in the fifth degree during 2017 were
people of color; 48
percent were
black and 38
percent were Hispanic.
Blacks and Latinos made up 80
percent of the nearly 23,000
people arrested for marijuana - related crimes in New York in 2016, according to a report from the Drug Policy Alliance.
Despite similar rates
of marijuana consumption across racial and ethnic groups, 80
percent of the nearly 23,000
people arrested for marijuana across New York in 2016 were
black or Latino, according to the DPA.
Some 86
percent of people arrested on marijuana charges last year were
black or Latino even though all racial groups use the drug at similar rates, officials have said.
The coalition alleges that half
of the affordable housing in South Williamsburg has gone to Hasidic allies
of Lopez and other whites, while 90
percent of the
people waiting for such housing are
black and Hispanic.
Rochester has a population
of 210,000
people, about 40
percent black and 16
percent Hispanic, and would make a good anchor for a single Senate district that is supposed to have 307,000.
Regarding race relations between
blacks and whites in Monroe County and the City
of Rochester, 69
percent of those responding view those relations as being only «fair» or «poor» while only 26
percent of the
people say they are «good» or «excellent».
Nixon says 80
percent of the New Yorkers arrested for marijuana are
black or Latino, despite the fact that whites and
people of color use marijuana at roughly the same rates.
«Eighty
percent of the New Yorkers who are arrested for marijuana are
black or Latino, despite the fact that whites and
people of color use marijuana at roughly the same rates.»
Sayegh added that 86
percent of those arrested are
black or Latino, even though white
people use marijuana at a much higher rate.
Nixon said 80
percent of the New Yorkers arrested for marijuana are
black or Latino, despite the fact that whites and
people of color use marijuana at roughly the same rates.
Eighty
percent of the New Yorkers arrested for marijuana are
black or Latino, despite the fact that whites and
people of color use marijuana at roughly the same rates.
Some 86
percent of people arrested for marijuana in New York City last year were
black or Hispanic, city officials have said.
Black, non-Hispanic service members had a rate
of 24.4 new diagnoses
of hypertension per 1,000
person - years (p - yrs), nearly 50
percent higher than the rates among members
of all the other racial and ethnic groups studied, according to the analysis published in the Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, a peer - reviewed journal on illnesses and injuries affecting service members.
As Conway's group reported in one
of a trio
of papers published in June, about 60
percent of the 1,401
people they surveyed, both online and in the lab, saw blue and
black, while 30
percent saw white and gold.
Studies
of genetic markers that are distinctive to ancestral groups show that typical African Americans have 20
percent European blood, although that figure can go as high as 80
percent in some
people who call themselves
black.
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A study
of mixed race
people showed that a significant
percent of nonblack men send initial messages to mixed
black women.
I was the only
black person in the theater, lured to the film by its glowing reviews — at the time
of this writing, it holds a rating
of 93
percent on Rotten Tomatoes, boosted by several notices that gush about how the film is a dark but honest look at humanity and grief.
Black people comprise approximately 12
percent of the population
of the United States.
He says their instructional staff is made up
of just over 20
percent Black, brown or multiethnic instructors; but that when you count non-instructional staff, that figure jumps to about 58
percent people of color in leadership positions throughout the school.
Based on the findings, only one - third
of people who are most likely to attend public schools are positive on what has transpired (approximately 85
percent of public school students are
black).
Black and Latino
people represent only 6.4
percent and 6.5
percent of the STEM workforce, respectively.
Respondents were 78
percent white and 15
percent black or Hispanic, completely marginalizing the opinion
of people of color.
While Colorado's population was 4
percent black in 2008 - 2009, the composition
of adult arrestees during that period was 11.8
percent black, admissions to the Department
of Corrections were 19
percent black, and the number
of people sent back from parole with a new crime was 24.7
percent black.
Also revealed is that
Black students accounted for 84.6
percent of the referrals to law enforcement, and that students with disabilities made up 92
percent of the young
people restrained or secluded in the schools.
«For me,» he said in his MCA Chicago lecture, «the thing that has the greatest transformative capacity in the art world today, in terms
of what
people expect to see when they go to the art museum, is a painting that has a
black figure in it, because 95
percent of all the other paintings you see are going to have white figures in them.
On the other, the legacy
of apartheid remains: Khayelitsha, a partially informal township on the Cape Flats and one
of the poorest areas in Cape Town, is still home to 2.4 million
people of whom nearly 100
percent are
black and young, and some half
of whom live in shacks; every day, tourists visiting the Robben Island Museum take a bare - bones bus from Nelson Mandela's onetime jail cell to a rocky outcrop where the gulls» squalls convey a feeling
of intense loneliness.
The same violence that has killed thousands
of people in South Asia's disputed Kashmir region is responsible for a 30 to 60
percent increase in the population
of endangered Asiatic
black bears, reports Toronto's Globe and Mail.
Darren
Black, the head
of home insurance at a price comparison service called Confused.com told the Telegraph that he wouldn't be surprised if the growth
of social media and geolocation services led to premium increases
of up to 10
percent for
people who use these sites.
In 2014, 15
percent of Planned Parenthood patients were
Black, more than 360,000
people, and 23
percent of Planned Parenthood patients were Latinos, more than 575,000
people.