Criminal Justice
Black students are 3x more likely to be suspended than white students for the same infractions, even when they’re as young as 3-years-old. And these numbers are closer to 6x for Black boys or girls?
Girls
In a 2016 study, what percentage of medical students and residents wrongly believed one of the following false beliefs about biological differences between the races? That Black people have thicker skin, feel less pain, and their blood coagulates more quickly than white people.
73% - Many medical textbooks still in use today actually still have these lies in print, contributing to an estimated 67% of doctors with unconscious racial biases
In 1934, The Federal Housing Administration established this process to deem neighborhoods as eligible for financial investment in infrastructure and improvements, as well as rate residents’ fitness for insurance, bank loans, and mortgages.
Redlining - The systemic denial of various services to residents of specific neighborhoods or communities. It was outlawed in the 60s but the practice and its effects never really went away.
“Lit” “On Fleek” “Whew Chile” “Sis” are examples of this unique rule-bound English dialect that is often misconstrued as “bad grammar,” “ghetto,” and “unprofessional” while at the same time is often appropriated and commodified without crediting Black culture.
African-American Vernacular English (AAVE)
Also referred to as Black Vernacular, Black English Vernacular (BEV), Black Vernacular English (BVE), and colloquially Ebonics
Job Applicants with what get called back 50% more than people with Black names, even with identical resumes.
White-sounding names
Children who are expelled are this many times more likely to end up in the juvenile justice system.
3x
Once Black children are in the criminal justice system, they are 18x more likely to be tried as adults than white kids, and 70% more likely to be back in jail by the age of 25 than youth who were not referred to juvenile detention.
True or False - Modern medical equipment is required to remove racial biases as much as possible
False.
No such requirement exists and there is many equipment and treatments that are still based on complete falsehoods that persist today. See Spirometers and oximeters.
Recent estimates show that Black families hold approximately 2.5-4.2% of the nation’s total wealth, while White families hold this much.
85-90% (as of 2019)
For every $100 earned by white families, Black families earn $57.30.
Edison may have invented the lightbulb but this man invented the longer-lasting carbon filament lightbulb that led to widespread adoption of electric lighting, whereas before lightbulbs only lasted a day or two and were prohibitively expensive.
Lewis Latimer
The 1963 March on Washington was organized by this man in just 8 weeks.
An openly gay Black man named Bayard Rustin.
MLK was chosen the figurehead in what was one of countless way the Black rights movement was made more palatable to white, conservative society
The modern U.S. police force can trace its origins back to this purpose in the early 1700s.
Slave Patrols and Night Watches - Modern day police originated as a force to capture escaped enslaved people and maintain order amongst the enslaved population
The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate in the industrialized world, and Black mothers are 3-4x more likely to die from pregnancy and childbirth complications than white mothers. The risk of death for Black babies is more than double that of white, asian, or hispanic babies, but this one factor decreases those risks significantly.
Having a Black doctor
Rates of this have been consistently 2x higher for Black people than white for the past 60 years, and this discrepancy persists whether you have a college degree or not.
Unemployment
Modern hip hop, camp, and couture fashion, as well as much of the language, dance, music, etc. that are considered part of gay culture today can trace their origins this Black and Latinx-created underground countercultural phenomenon founded in the late 1800s.
Ball culture, Ballroom culture, drag ball culture, or house-ballroom community
3c to 4c hair, the tightest coiled hair types, are the most prone to breakage because each kink is a weak spot and the more kinks in a strand, the harder it is for natural oils in the scalp to travel to the ends, leading to drier, more brittle hair. Twists, braids, and cornrows are examples of this, a method by which people with tightly coiled hair can avoid breakage.
Protective hairstyles
A loophole was left in the 13th amendment that allows for the unpaid labor of this group of people, meaning slavery was never fully abolished in the U.S.
Prisoners
The US is the only country in the world with a privatized prison system which incentivizes mass incarceration for the purpose of providing free prison labor.
Because of a deadly combination of systemic and environmental factors, Black people are from COVID-19 at dying at a 3-4 times higher rate than white people, and on average have a 60% higher rate of diabetes and 40% higher rate of hypertension and asthma. Name one of those contributing factors.
Any of: higher density public housing, exposure to toxic air and/or water pollutants, mass incarceration, lack of accessible healthcare, transportation, food desserts, likelihood to be an “essential worker”
Studies show that realtors show fewer homes to Black homebuyers. And this has been proven to be lower when Black families leave photos of themselves up in their homes, further contributing to lower generational wealth.
Home appraisal
i.e. the value you can sell your home for
This group established a free breakfast program for as many as 20,000 students across the country at it’s peak in 1969, and served as the origin of the Federal USDA School Breakfast Program, that now feeds 13 million students each day.
The Black Panther Party
Under Eisenhower, predominantly Black neighborhoods were destroyed to build these throughout the country, effectively segregating whole cities. They still exist today, even in ATX, between downtown and East Austin.
Interstate Highways
Black people make up only 13% of the nation’s population but what percentage of the prison population?
40%
Not only are Black people are 20% more likely to be sentenced to jail time than white people for similar crimes. They also receive 20% longer sentences.
This was invented by a eugenicist with zero medical training in the 1830s to categorize the degree of obesity to aid the gov in allocating resources. However, he based measurements exclusively on white male bodies, and now this tool is used to deny POC health insurance and proper medical care at far higher rates than white people because they're considered "outliers."
BMI
On May 31, 1921, a white mob destroyed 35 sq blocks of this district—at that time the wealthiest black community in the U.S.—and attacked an estimated 6K Black residents in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Black Wall Street
Hip hop, rap, reggae, R&B, jazz, rock n roll, the blues, house, techno, and more types of music can all be credited to Black creators originally. Country music also was formed by Black influence, namely its use of this instrument, which is a direct descendant of the West African lute.
The banjo is a variation of the West African lutes brought to America by slaves. The sound was appropriated and spread to white audiences through minstrel and blackface shows, and popularized by white Country artists who originally sang many songs taken from black sources – often without credit.
This type of racism refers to the fact that communities of color suffer the harmful effects of pollution at higher rates than white populations. Examples include “Cancer Alley” in Louisiana where a concentration of polluting facilities in a primarily Black community increase the risk of cancer by 700x or Flint, Michigan where residents haven’t had access to clean water in 7 years.
Environmental Racism