![]() ![]() One in 1,000 African American men die at the hands of police, and their chances of dying in this way are 2.5 times greater than those of white men.īeginning in the 1960s, a group of legal scholars saw that these patterns could not be satisfactorily accounted for by the character failings of hateful individual racists. Some accused of crimes never go to prison because they are killed by police. whose function was maintaining white supremacy The problem of racism was best understood. Mass incarceration has seen many more people from all races spend time in prison, but its burden has fallen overwhelmingly on black men – of those born in 2001, one in three black men are expected to spend time in prison, but just over one in 20 white men expected to suffer the same fate. The contrasts are perhaps most stark in the area of criminal justice. And while 7% of whites under 64 have no health insurance – which severely limits access to healthcare – black Americans are uninsured at a rate of 21.5%. One in three black children live in extreme poverty, against one in 11 white children. One in three black families in the US have no or negative net wealth, the median white family is 41 times more wealthy than their black counterparts, and this gap has grown significantly over the past 30 years. Last year the Brookings Institution assembled a range of startling data analysis showing how pervasive that inequality is. ![]() These disparities are visible in measurable material inequalities in almost every sphere of social life. ![]() Originally, critical race theory was an attempt by African American scholars to explain a simple, staggering fact: well over a century since the emancipation of black slaves in the US, and decades after the end of the “Jim Crow” system of segregation and the denial of civil rights, massive racial disparities still exist. ![]()
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