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is manifest in the fact that people of color are quoted substantially higher finance rates (60% - 70%) for car purchases.

is manifest in the fact that black job applicants are far less likely than whites to get called back (to the tune of 14% for blacks vs. 34% for whites) and an African American needs to have eight years of job experience before they perform as well as white applicants with no experience.

Another recent study in Milwaukee had black and white male applicants, all with good self_presentations, apply for 350 less_skilled jobs in the city. While 34 percent of the white job applicants were called back, only 14 percent of equally qualified black applicants were called back. Even the subgroup of white applicants who indicated they had been in prison for cocaine possession were more likely to be called back than the black applicants with no criminal record. Evidently, employers drew on stereotypes of black men in screening them out of their hiring pools. (10) xiv. Similarly, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently sent applications to ads by Chicago and Boston employers. Using made_up names that sound (especially to whites) like typical white or black names, they found that applicants with white_sounding names were 50 percent more likely to be contacted by employers than those with black_sounding names. Improving the reported qualifications of the applicant was far more likely to get whites a callback than blacks. Being black with eight years of job experience was necessary to get the same treatment as a white applicant with no experience.(11)

is conceived as either (1) practices and laws that are innately discriminatory (i.e. Jim Crow, housing bias) which are against federal law and which we all oppose or (2) a disparate impact of a law on groups, which is simply a natural consequence unless directed at the group.

if you're gonna talk about systemic racism they're really only a couple ways to define systemic racism one is practices and laws that are innately discriminatory Jim Crow housing bias right the things that are innately discriminatory we all oppose them and they're against federal law. then there is a second way to define systemic discrimination and that is disparate impact disparate impact is the idea that if you pass a law and has a disparate impact on one group in one group is harder hit than another group that this is an element of racism I do not I will not endorse that version of systemic racism because every single law that has ever been passed in human history impacts groups differently the question is whether the law is directed at the group.

is the result of critical decisions made by important European American decision makers at key points in North American history.

Systemic racism exists because of critical decisions made by important European American decision makers at key points in North American history. For centuries, the European American elite has actively shaped major social, economic, and political institutions to support and maintain its oppression of Americans of color. p.11

is manifest in the fact that black children with "exotic" names get less attention and help from teachers on the assumption that they will not do well.

The researcher suggested that black children with exotic_to_whites names get less attention and help from teachers who likely assume from their names that they will not do well.(12)

is manifest in the fact that black children with exotic_to_whites names get less attention and help from teachers who likely assume from their names that they will not do well.

is a feedback loop evidenced in the domain of health care where people of color are more likely to be forced to live in toxic industrial areas, distant from super markets, with crumbling infrastructure.

is a feedback loop evidenced in the domain of housing.

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