Morgan Freeman lays it down on the white man...like a boss

I'm just referencing the fact that being white isn't what people think it is. Comedians and people may joke about how good it is to be white, but honestly it comes down to class not race, for the most part. Racism IS still here, don't get me wrong.....but these "white" privileges, if any, are definitely among the middle upper class to upper class. If you are anywhere in the lower to middle class, being white doesn't somehow earn you a place anywhere. You are a fucking nuraber.
 
It's funny seeing the arguments on OT thrown up because they're the exact same ones I made day in and day out when I first started studying this subject.

Do some long term research and read some of the studies done by prominent scholars in the field. It changed my mind.
 
You're missing the point man.

At least when someone was racist or discriminated before it was apparent.

Now, people like to think like you do. People love to say that racism is dead, and that blacks are less discriminated against, and that society is more about class than it is race.

It's just not true.

When you're more likely to be poor, more likely to be arrested, more likely to be sentenced to jail as a juvenile, more likely to be denied parole, etc, etc, etc, just because you're black, well, it still exists.

Institutional discrimination is far worse than individual discrimination because people who don't examine the cause/effect of policies and statistics will just assume that discrimination is not occurring.

When that happens, people actually start to believe that blacks commit crime at a rate 3x more than whites. (What really happens is that they're arrested 3x more than whites. UCR data (most used crime data source for police) is based on arrests. It differs highly from victimization surveys and from self-reporting. )

When people justify the belief that blacks commit more crime, or are less intelligent or any other stereotype by using data generated by a system that is inherently institutionally discriminatory, well then you really see how fucked it is.
 
UCR is such a joke.

Look at the history of it, the funding, the refusal to participate by numerous organizations, and the lack of regulation surrounding reporting.
 
This sometimes happens, certainly.

Maybe it's just the crop I have worked with.

Fucking drama queens the lot of them.

Men....we're all like, "We got this".


Yeah....that was the norm at a company I used to work for right before I got there but they straightened everything up eventually.

Yep....they control the access so listen up OT....if you want to meet that VIP, schmooze the secretaries. real talk
 
In any event threeclaws, as I already said, I advanced the same arguments that you did day in/out while giving the material a cursory look.

I said that it's based on decisions, and class, etc.

Same rhetoric.

Since studying it for a couple of years now, I've realized that the overall effect of institutional discrimination is apparent and actualized.

Not a single credible CJ researchers discounts that assertion.

There's a reason why.
 
I mean, I don't disagree that class is very important, and that it ultimately does decide a large portion of your potential for success, you can't discount the fact that being a minority puts you at a disadvantage overall.
 
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