Sentences with phrase «than white american»

But if you're an unarmed black American, you have a far better chance of being choked to death by the police, shot by the police (sometimes in the back), or wrongly imprisoned, than a white American.

But contemporary black American culture is no more exempt than white American culture from mass culture's homogenizing permeation.

However, I recently read that African American men have a 150 percent greater incidence of prostate cancer than white American men.

A white man would rather hire an Indian than a white American if the latter had the slightest appearance of being his equal.

And within cities, the Centers for Disease Control found that black Americans are, on average, eight times more likely to be killed by guns than white Americans.

Surveys show that African - Americans attend church in higher numbers than white Americans do, and Democratic politicians have long made a habit of speaking from black pulpits in the leadup to Election Day.

That may be because black Americans are more likely to frequently attend church than white Americans.

Sure I knew that on average, black Africans score lower on intelligence tests than white Americans, who score lower on intelligence tests than Asians, who score lower on intelligence tests than some other Caucasians: Ashkenazi Jews.

According to the report, cancer incidence is 15 % higher among African - American men than among white, non-Hispanic men; all minority groups have higher rates of stomach cancer than white Americans; and the 5 - year cancer survival rate of Native Americans is only about two - thirds that of whites.

«Prostate cancer is strikingly more common in African Americans [than white Americans],» says David Thomas, a cancer geneticist also at the Garvan Institute.

«Racial - ethnic minorities suffer more strokes and worse stroke outcomes than White Americans and they often show up later to an emergency room to seek critical treatments,» said Bernadette Boden - Albala, M.P.H., Dr.PH., lead author and professor of public health, dentistry and neurology and associate dean of program development, at Global Institute of Public Health at New York University.

Why is it that american indians, pacific islanders, etc. all have much higher rights of diabesity than white americans?

American of Chinese ancestry have a higher homeownership rate for their income than white Americans, finds new research by real estate economist Gary Painter, Ph.D., of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate.

Even now, qualified mortgage applicants in communities of color face lower odds in their mortgage applications than white Americans do.

Not exact matches

«The CFPB's structure is based on the idea that government is unlimited and rights are dependent on the special dispensation of the experts who know better than the American people,» Republican Sens. Ben Sasseof Nebraska and Mike Leeof Utah wrote in a recent letter to the White House.

According to a study from the Harvard Business School, guests with «distinctly African - American names» were 16 % more likely to be rejected by prospective hosts than guests with distinctly white names.

Obama had used the Antiquities Act more than any other president, his White House said in December, when he designated over 1.6 million acres of land in Utah and Nevada as national monuments, protecting two areas rich in Native American artifacts from mining, oil and gas drilling.

«No group in America,» Trump mused during a speech before a nearly all - white audience in Dimondale, Mich., «has been more harmed by Hillary Clinton's policies than African Americans.»

White households are nearly 13 times richer than African - American ones.

Black Americans tend to pay more for cars than their white counterparts.

According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, more than four in ten white seniors say that a growing population of immigrants is a «change for the worse;» half of white boomers believe immigration is «a threat to traditional American customs and values.»

And African - American men are far more likely to be stopped and searched by police, charged with crimes and sentenced to longer prison terms than white men convicted of the same offenses.

A striking 2014 study by UCLA professor Phillip Atiba Goff and colleagues and published by the American Psychological Association found that black boys as young as 10 years old were viewed as older than — and not as «innocent» as — white boys the same age.

That's all to the good; I don't think it's an accident that the first wide - open Best Picture race in decades coincides with the fact that a quarter of voting members have joined since 2014, and that a far lower percentage of them are straight, white male American elders than is the case with the other 75 percent of voters.

That may not sound particularly controversial, but some immigration and labor activists are calling out FWD.us for favoring a specific type of immigrant: White - collar tech workers whom tech world titans could pay less than their American colleagues.

Bloomberg's Anna Edney: «Rolling back Obamacare's requirement that all Americans have health insurance would save the U.S. $ 338 billion over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office, a smaller benefit than previously projected for a plan favored by the White House.

«From 2012 to 2014,» the researchers note, «the annual firearm homicide rate for African American children (3.5 per 100000) was nearly twice as high as the rate for American Indian children (2.2 per 100000), 4 times higher than the rate for Hispanic children (0.8 per 100000), and ∼ 10 times higher than the rate for white children and Asian American children (each 0.4 per 100000).»

You're misinformed... while the percentage of poverty among African - Americans is substantially higher than it is among white Americans, only a minority of African - Americans are poor.

Christianity is growing more rapidly than any other faith, but the vast majority of believers will be neither white nor European nor Euro - American.

We must, therefore, retain a little more confidence in American medicine than this book alone is likely to produce in us, but, so long as we keep that in mind, White Coat, Black Hat should force us to ask some hard questions about how best to structure the practice of medicine.

The disorder also seems to afflict white middle and upper - middle class boys more than other ethnic groups, such as Asian - Americans.

Fifty - five percent of white Americans believe white people face discrimination, although less than 20 percent say they've ever personally experienced discrimination.

According to a Pew Research Center survey of 1,655 registered voters released today, more than half of white evangelicals said they weren't satisfied with their ballot options (55 %), reflecting the feeling of Americans at large (58 %).

The disparity is also reflected in the nation's prison population: According to the International Business Times, black Americans are more than five more times likely to be imprisoned than whites, and in 11 states, blacks represent more than half of the prison population, in spite of the fact that more than three - quarters of the nation is made up of white Americans.

Misusing Scripture to reinforce gender stereotypes based more on white, American, post-World War II cultural ideals than biblical truth doesn't protect women; it harms them.

When White House press secretary Jody Powell was asked how well the media handled the religious dimension of Jimmy Carter, he replied: «The American people, as a whole, are probably better equipped to understand that aspect of Jimmy Carter's life than are the people who are trying to explain it to them.

Did it have to take «Sandy» to give us, what will hopefully be, more than a «teachable moment», with regards to what happens when Republicans «work across the political aisle» with Democrats, for the good of American households, instead of «working the craving» to «occupy» the White House?

The new black conservatives assume that without affirmative action programs, white Americans will make choices on merit rather than on race.

Such efforts give the lie to what is accurately described as the racist slander that black Americans are incorrigibly incapable of facing the truth about their situation, are perpetually parasitic on the larger society, and have no other strategy than to exploit white guilt in order to continue the free ride that blacks are getting on the wagon that others pull (to use Senator Phil Gramm's ugly image).

Blacks have suffered more than any other group in American history from the projection of every rejected impulse in the unconscious white mind.

Much more recently Eldridge Cleaver has pointed out that the splitting tendency in American culture, which we have traced back to the early Puritans, tended to make the white man a mind without a body and the black man a body without a mind.20 Only when the white man comes to respect his own body, to accept it as part of himself, will he be able to accept the black man's mind and treat him as something other than the living symbol of what he has rejected in himself.

White, young Americans are more than twice as likely as all others to commit lethal violence and then live to reach a happy ending.

As the wife of Saeed Abedini, the 33 - year - old Iranian - American pastor imprisoned for more than 250 days, testifies before the United Nations's Human Rights Council today, the White House has issued its strongest statement yet advocating for Abedini's release.

Asian and white Americans are more likely to have college degrees (50 percent and 29 percent respectively) than their black (18 percent) and Latino (13 percent) counterparts.

«Fewer than one in five African - American fourth graders is proficient in reading and Latino eighth graders are less than half as likely to be proficient in math as their white peers.»

The study also found men, people who live in cities and non-white Americans are more likely to embrace other worldviews than women, people living in suburbs and rural areas and white Americans.

Historically, however, the idea of the ministry as a middle - class, white - collar profession is more the exception than the rule for most American denominations, and in many traditions today it is still a relatively unfamiliar concept.

This raises the question of whether being religiously unaffiliated among African - Americans and Hispanics means something different than it means among their white counterparts.

Much of that surge was fueled by white evangelical and other white mainline Protestant religious groups who are more likely to see immigrants as a threat to American values than other groups, according to a 2015 PRRI study.

As expected, Americans who consider themselves part of the Tea Party movement are significantly more non-Hispanic white than the general population (80 percent vs. 69 percent of Americans overall).