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Re:How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to ev... by shadowgovt on Saturday September 04, 2021 @02:31PM (#28417770)
> I have half the chance of being shot by the police and a third the risk of being incarcerated than white people.

This claim completely contradicts every statistic I've seen on the topic. Can you pass along a source for this? It's a significant adjustment to my thinking on this topic if I can cite a source.

If it's the book you link to the end of your comments, I'll have to have it to my reading list.

Re:How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to ev... by rayiner on Saturday September 04, 2021 @05:01PM (#28419167)
I'm the "other" kind of brown: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1123070/police-shootings...

The seemingly higher rate for hispanics disappears when you adjust for the fact that the median hispanic is 28 and the median white person is 42. (The odds of being shot by the police drop sharply after 35.)

Similarly, Latino incarceration rates have dropped below white incarceration rates: https://www.slowboring.com/p/hispanic-prison

> The dwindling of Hispanic-white disparities is even more remarkable in light of criminal behavior being so heavily concentrated in adolescence and young adulthood,. The median age for Hispanics is 29.8 years versus 43.7 for whites, meaning even in a system free of prejudice that punished solely on the basis of crimes committed, we would expect criminal justice disparities between the populations to be growing, not shrinking.

"Systemic racism" targeted generally at non-white people isn't feature of American society. It's much narrower than that: persistent disparities for Black and indigenous people.