Redlining is racist because:
- the creator blatantly said that no blacks were allowed. It is a well known fact.
- Black families making $100,000 typically live in the kinds of neighborhoods inhabited by white families making $30,000.”
- Subprime loans were given to 41.5% of blacks and 30.9% of Latinos, but only 17.8% of whites.
- Among high-income borrowers in 2006, African Americans were three times as likely as whites to pay higher prices for mortgages—32.1 percent compared to 10.5 percent. Latinos were nearly as likely as African Americans to pay higher prices for their mortgages at 29.1 percent.”
Police and courts are racist because:
- They kill a higher percentage of Black people than white people while making an arrest
- Black people get stopped and pulled out of their cars more
- Innocent black people are more likely to be convicted than white people.
- Black people are way more likely to be taken to prison - and not because they commit more crimes
- Black people are more likely to be charged to harsher measures than white people
The war on Drugs was racist because:
- Nixon specifically wanted to target black people by putting drugs in their neighborhoods and then making it a 'black thing' to have drugs
- Black people have a higher arrest percentage of drug users than white people.
- White kids are more likely to use drugs but less likely to be arrested - this happens for adults in marijuana too
Education is racist because:
- Whites are 78% more likely to be accepted to the same university as equally qualified people of color. Emphasis on “equally qualified".
- The U.S. is one of only 3 of the 34 O.E.C.D. nations to give fewer resources and have lower teacher/student ratios in poorer communities than in more privileged communities
- Black people get more criminal charges in school than white people.
Wealth is racist because:
- The average net worth of black households is $6,314, compared to $110,500 for the average white household
- While a college-educated white American has an average net worth of $75,000, a college-educated black American has an average net worth of less than $17,500.
- The black-white wealth gap is greater in the United States today than it was in South Africa in 1970, at the height of apartheid. We also incarcerate a higher percentage of blacks today than apartheid South Africa did.
- "And why do blacks have less inherited wealth? Because for 250 years, they didn’t haveproperty, they wereproperty. Yes, the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation happened 150 years ago, but then we went straight into Jim Crow. For 100 years. Until the Civil Rights Movement (MLK, Malcom X, Black Panthers, Rosa Parks, etc.), which was forty years ago! Your parents were alive when MLK was assassinated! Rosa Parks refusal to give up her seat on the bus, which ignited the whole 15-year movement, was the year before my parents were born! They were children and teenagers during almost the entire Civil Rights Movement! This isn’t ancient history; it’s yesterday. We’ve gone from slavery to Jim Crow to today—which, in light of the statistics listed above and below, isn’t looking so much like equality anymore. When, exactly, were black people supposed to find the opportunity to accumulate and pass on even the most modest amount of wealth?"
Voting is racist because:
- Voter ID is flawed and racist against black people. There isn't even that much voter fraud.
- 11% of the American population do not have the kind of government ID required by the strictest state voter ID laws—including 18% of Americans over 65 and 25% of blacks.[54]
- Voter laws that prevent felons former felons from voting disenfranchise 5.85 million Americans with felony charges in their past.