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#Racial_Thread So, first, there obviously is some racial prejudice in the United States: I don't know any serious 'Black conservative' who denies this. Even today ~ 8% of Americans say they wouldn't vote for a qualified Black President of THEIR party. news.gallup.com/poll/183791/su…
But, it is ALSO true that multiple trillion-dollar policies have been implemented in the USA specifically to counter racial prejudice. We forcibly desegregated the South back in 1954, passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, and made PRO-MINORITY affirmative action the law in '67.
These policies worked. So, TODAY, when we adjust for "variables" other than race, we find that most gaps between races - usually attributed to racism - disappear. Just adjusting for age, region (North/South) and education OR test scores almost wipes out the B: W gap in earnings.
#4 - We also find that OTHER gaps between groups are much larger than the racial ones. According to solid work on "privilege" by moi and others, sex, sexual orientation, faith, rural status, IQ, and SOCIAL CLASS all impact "life outcomes" far more than race does.
#5 - Racism, mathematically, is the extent to which OTHERWISE INDENTICAL people who vary only in terms of the characteristic of race are treated differently because of that characteristic. Simply put: there isn't much of that today, although past gaps remain and must be fixed.
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