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It might be argued that Anderson himself did not USE a racial slur, but objected to the use of the slur being used against him. NOT that it comes as any surprise that the usual racists and bigots would USE the incident to deride even LOGICALLY applied regulations regarding hate speech.

Would have been different if Anderson called the perp this. He DIDN'T. Anyone with HALF a brain KNOWS the difference (ONE WOULD THINK) between the word as used in Anderson's response (in fact an OBJECTION to its use) and the intent of the ACTUAL perpetrator. The school's STUDENTS sure do:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/wisconsin-students-walk-class-protest-193637040.html
‘I’m not your n-word’: school guard fired for repeating racial slur
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wisconsin-students-walk-class-protest-193637040.html
Wisconsin students walk out of class to protest racial slur firing
 
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Red line them to determine where they live, then shoot them in their homes while minding their own business. If it didn't kill them, put them on the back burner while they treat the others for a common cold. This is the America we live in. If they don't like it why don't they just go back to those shit hole countries?


A widely used algorithm that predicts which patients will benefit from extra medical care dramatically underestimates the health needs of the sickest black patients, amplifying long-standing racial disparities in medicine, researchers have found.

The problem was caught in an algorithm sold by a leading health services company, called Optum, to guide health care decision-making for millions of people. But the same issue almost certainly exists in other tools used by other private companies, nonprofit health systems and government agencies to manage the health care of about 200 million people in the United States each year, the scientists reported in the journal Science.

Correcting the bias would more than double the number of black patients flagged as at risk of complicated medical needs within the health system the researchers studied, and they are already working with Optum on a fix. When the company replicated the analysis on a national data set of 3.7 million patients, they found that black patients who were ranked by the algorithm as equally as in need of extra care as white patients were much sicker: They collectively suffered from 48,772 additional chronic diseases.

Racial bias in a medical algorithm favors white patients over sicker black patients
 

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Red line them to determine where they live, then shoot them in their homes while minding their own business. If it didn't kill them, put them on the back burner while they treat the others for a common cold. This is the America we live in. If they don't like it why don't they just go back to those shit hole countries?


A widely used algorithm that predicts which patients will benefit from extra medical care dramatically underestimates the health needs of the sickest black patients, amplifying long-standing racial disparities in medicine, researchers have found.

The problem was caught in an algorithm sold by a leading health services company, called Optum, to guide health care decision-making for millions of people. But the same issue almost certainly exists in other tools used by other private companies, nonprofit health systems and government agencies to manage the health care of about 200 million people in the United States each year, the scientists reported in the journal Science.

Correcting the bias would more than double the number of black patients flagged as at risk of complicated medical needs within the health system the researchers studied, and they are already working with Optum on a fix. When the company replicated the analysis on a national data set of 3.7 million patients, they found that black patients who were ranked by the algorithm as equally as in need of extra care as white patients were much sicker: They collectively suffered from 48,772 additional chronic diseases.

Racial bias in a medical algorithm favors white patients over sicker black patients

Thanks for the story, Sargon.

As I recall, I posted links to stories about studies that arrived at similar findings, in this forum years ago. And one of the usual defenders/deniers of discrimination and racial disparities, responded by writing something to the effect that the disparity must be due to failure of minority patients to follow-up, because if this racial bias were true, it'd be a national scandal.

Or so he said.
 

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When I typed in the title of tonight's NBC Nightly News report on the three men who were freed after 36 YEARS in prison for a murder they didn't commit, the story I was looking for wasn't there yet.

Instead this "results" page came up, with story after story after story of the number of mostly black men, women, and people of color, who were later found to be innocent after serving most of their lives behind bars for a crime they DIDN'T COMMIT:

three men freed after 36 years in prison for murder they didn't commit nbc nightly news - YouTube

The actual, and more RECENT story I was looking for can be seen here:

Three men freed after 36 years in prison for murder they didn’t commit


In it, Baltimore State Attorney Marilyn Mosby states that, "We have to not be afraid to confront the fact that the criminal justice system is flawed."

Which I'd say, was an UNDERSTATEMENT on her part.

It's not only "flawed"... it's STACKED, against minorities and people of color for whom there is not only a rush to judgment and a presumption of guilt,

but for whom "law enforcement" themselves TOO often (as in this case) willingly engage in negligent if not CRIMINAL INTENT, in order to KNOWINGLY CONVICT, and DESTROY THE LIVES OF INNOCENT people.

 
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When I typed in the title of tonight's NBC Nightly News report on the three men who were freed after 36 YEARS in prison for a murder they didn't commit, the story I was looking for wasn't there yet.

Instead this "results" page came up, with story after story after story of the number of mostly black men, women, and people of color, who were later found to be innocent after serving most of their lives behind bars for a crime they DIDN'T COMMIT:

three men freed after 36 years in prison for murder they didn't commit nbc nightly news - YouTube

The actual, and more RECENT story I was looking for can be seen here:

Three men freed after 36 years in prison for murder they didn’t commit


In it, Boston State Attorney Marilyn Mosby states that, "We have to not be afraid to confront the fact that the criminal justice system is flawed."

Which I'd say, was an UNDERSTATEMENT on her part.

It's not only "flawed"... it's STACKED, against minorities and people of color for whom there is not only a rush to judgment and a presumption of guilt,

but for whom "law enforcement" themselves TOO often (as in this case) willingly engage in negligent if not CRIMINAL INTENT, in order to KNOWINGLY CONVICT, and DESTROY THE LIVES OF INNOCENT people.

Ms. Mosby is the State's Attorney for Baltimore, not Boston. This was in the heart of Freddy Grey country - again.
 

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[from the "Police Misconduct: thread]

Some people are really dense. Someone got shot just standing in his own hallway. Someone got shot sitting in his own home eating ice cream. Someone got shot playing video games at home. Someone was shot simply riding mass transit.
Someone was shot while shopping at Walmart. Someone was shot while playing in the park.

All innocent tasks. Not so innocent outcomes.
Ex-cops claim NYPD brass enforced racist arrest quotas on subways
https://nypost.com/2019/12/06/ex-cops-claim-nypd-brass-enforced-racist-arrest-quotas-on-subways/

Excerpt:
A retired NYPD officer claims that transit cops in his former bureau were awarded more overtime if they arrested black men, according to new court papers.Retired cop Pierre Maximilien says officers in Coney Island’s Transit District 34 were told to avoid “soft targets” — meaning whites and Asians, as well as Jewish people — and instead focus their time on blacks and Hispanics while patrolling the subways...

Maximilien’s allegations are part of an ongoing Manhattan federal-court lawsuit brought by NYPD Sgt. Edreweene Raymond and three others who claim police brass retaliated after they spoke up between 2011 and 2015 about a racist quota system governing ticketing and arrests.

Exactly. As SOME of us know, the REALITY of racism within law enforcement, which CONTRIBUTES to the well documented racial/economic disparity in "law enforcement" (much of which has been documented in THIS thread) has LONG been a problem that persists far beyond just the NYPD:

West Virginia White Supremacist Officers Are Latest Racists Exposed In Law Enforcement | News One

"The fallout surrounding a photo showing recent graduates of a corrections officers’ training program throwing up Nazi salutes was just the most recent example of how prevalent white supremacist allegiances are in law enforcement across the country.

The episode in West Virginia came on the heels of a police officer in Connecticut being outed as a member of the Proud Boys, a group that the Southern Poverty Law Center calls a hate group whose “leaders regularly spout white nationalist memes and maintain affiliations with known extremists.”

About five months earlier, a lawyer published a searchable database that shows thousands of racist social media posts made by thousands of police officers around the country. The Plain View Project 5,000 posts and comments made by police officers through verified accounts. About 2,800 of the officers, some of them high-ranking, were still on the job as of June.

In Philadelphia, the Inquirer reported that 15 of the city’s high-ranking officers are in the database because of racist, misogynist, Islamophobic and pro-violence posts.

In October 2006, the FBI published a report titled “White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement,” in which the agency discussed the threat of white supremacist groups permeating police departments to hamper investigations and to recruit like-minded officers. It’s unclear whether police officials ever heeded the warning, PBS.org said a decade after the report was issued."

(from Newsone - see: Urban One - Wikipedia)
 
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A Decade Of Dominion: How U.S. Policing Restricted Black Life Over The Past 10 Years | HuffPost

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excerpts:

"The decade between 2010 and 2020 was a clarifying decade in terms of the United States of America’s expectations for Black people.

Taken together, if Black people were to avoid all of the activities that white people now tell us to avoid for our own safety, the resulting condition would likely and coincidentally — or not — look a lot like slavery...

Throughout the decade, news coverage often probed into the lives of those harmed while doing these things, but stories about the people who enforce those rigid stipulations were harder to come across.

Rarely were those people required to express in words their precise expectations for how Black people ought to live. Instead, they often opted for euphemisms about the need to respect or comply law enforcement.

But the effect of their demands was a strict and particular code of conduct for Black people."



in other news:

This Is What Racism Sounds Like in the Banking Industry

"It is no secret that racism has been baked into the American banking system. There are few black executives in the upper echelons of most financial institutions. Leading banks have recently paid restitution to black employees for isolating them from white peers, placing them in the poorest branches and cutting them off from career opportunities. Black customers are sometimes profiled, viewed with suspicion just for entering a bank and questioned over the most basic transactions.

This year, researchers for the National Bureau of Economic Research found that black mortgage borrowers were charged higher interest rates than white borrowers and were denied mortgages that would have been approved for white applicants."

 
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Hunting black men to start a ‘race war
James Harris Jackson went to New York with a Roman sword and an apocalyptic ideology. He stabbed a stranger in the back and left him to die.

Caughman, the 28-year-old Army veteran explained, was “practice” for a bigger attack in which Jackson aimed to kill as many black men with white women as he could.

“I was looking to get black men scared and have them do reciprocal attacks,” he said, “and inspire white men to do similar things.”​
 
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MAGA

Hunting black men to start a ‘race war
James Harris Jackson went to New York with a Roman sword and an apocalyptic ideology. He stabbed a stranger in the back and left him to die.

Caughman, the 28-year-old Army veteran explained, was “practice” for a bigger attack in which Jackson aimed to kill as many black men with white women as he could.

“I was looking to get black men scared and have them do reciprocal attacks,” he said, “and inspire white men to do similar things.”​


Washington Post; Didn't Read.

Guy sounds like a human filth though, not surprised he was raised in a Democrat household
 

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Washington Post; Didn't Read.

No shit.

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Hunting black men to start a ‘race war
James Harris Jackson went to New York with a Roman sword and an apocalyptic ideology. He stabbed a stranger in the back and left him to die.

Caughman, the 28-year-old Army veteran explained, was “practice” for a bigger attack in which Jackson aimed to kill as many black men with white women as he could.

“I was looking to get black men scared and have them do reciprocal attacks,” he said, “and inspire white men to do similar things.”​

This is just yet another example of the extremist act of terrorism and hate that make the headlines, Sargon.

Which says NOTHING of the continuous, and DAILY acts of racism, marginalization, hate, and disparity inflicted upon minorities by these "below the radar" types who quietly go about promoting and practicing racism and bigotry, by what they say, what they condone, what they defend, and what they FAIL to condemn.... while they, in turn try to make US out to be the "haters."

And in ways that, perhaps, have a more lasting impact upon the minds and psyche of those so DEMONIZED. As illustrated by a study produced by the Rutger's School of Public Health and cited in several online sources (rutgers.edu, studyfinds.org, and medicalexpress.com) under various titles:


Study: African-American Teens Face Racist 'Microaggression' Multiple Times Per Day - Study Finds

Black teens face racial discrimination multiple times daily, suffer depressive symptoms as a result - Medical Express

Black Teens Face Racial Discrimination Multiple Times Daily, Suffer Depressive Symptoms as a Result | Rutgers Today

And the actual introduction of the study (which can be found on sciencedirect.com - I'll not link any of the sources) states the following:

"The rise in hate crimes against Black U.S. American youth since the 2016 presidential election (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2018) provides a stark indicator that anti-Blackness continues to be deeply woven into the U.S. societal fabric.

Indeed, an accumulating body of research
(see Benner et al., 2018) provides evidence that persistent racial discrimination targeting Black adolescents contributes to increased psychological symptoms (e.g., anxiety, depressive, trauma symptoms; Greene, Way, & Pahl, 2006; Priest et al., 2013), increased substance use (e.g., Gibbons, Gerrard, Cleveland, Wills, & Brody, 2004), decreased academic achievement (e.g., Chavous, Rivas-Drake, Smalls, Griffin, & Cogburn, 2008; English, Lambert, & Ialongo, 2016; Neblett Jr., Philip, Cogburn, & Sellers, 2006), and increased physiological problems among these youth (e.g., inflammation, high blood pressure; Brody, Yu, Miller, & Chen, 2015; Clark & Gochett, 2006).

Despite this evidence, researchers have suggested that their studies may underestimate the association between racial discrimination and negative biopsychosocial outcomes among Black adolescents
(e.g., Berkel et al., 2009; English, Lambert, & Ialongo, 2014; Pachter, Bernstein, Szalacha, & García Coll, 2010) because they assessed a limited set of a larger group of qualitatively-indicated (e.g., Rosenbloom & Way, 2004) and theoretically-relevant (e.g., Sue, Capodilupo, & Holder, 2008) contemporary experiences of racial discrimination."


 

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Modern-day redlining: Banks discriminate in lending
For people of color, banks are shutting the door to homeownership



"Fifty years after the federal Fair Housing Act banned racial discrimination in lending, African Americans and Latinos continue to be routinely denied conventional mortgage loans at rates far higher than their white counterparts.


This modern-day redlining persisted in 61 metro areas even when controlling for applicants’ income, loan amount and neighborhood, according to a mountain of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act records analyzed by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting.

The yearlong analysis, based on 31 million records, relied on techniques used by leading academics, the Federal Reserve and Department of Justice to identify lending disparities.

It found a pattern of troubling denials for people of color across the country, including in major metropolitan areas such as Atlanta, Detroit, Philadelphia, St. Louis and San Antonio. African Americans faced the most resistance in Southern cities – Mobile, Alabama; Greenville, North Carolina; and Gainesville, Florida – and Latinos in Iowa City, Iowa.


The yearlong analysis, based on 31 million records, relied on techniques used by leading academics, the Federal Reserve and Department of Justice to identify lending disparities.

It found a pattern of troubling denials for people of color across the country, including in major metropolitan areas such as Atlanta, Detroit, Philadelphia, St. Louis and San Antonio. African Americans faced the most resistance in Southern cities – Mobile, Alabama; Greenville, North Carolina; and Gainesville, Florida – and Latinos in Iowa City, Iowa."

and....

The blackest city in the US is facing an environmental justice nightmare | US news | The Guardian
 
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Crimes is down across the board so why does the US imprison so many people mainly of color? The perception of crime is up and that's on purpose of course. You need fear to drive people to watch the news and to vote.

Noam Chomsky - The Prison System
 

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Black Business Owners With 750+ Credit Scores Are Rejected For Loans

"Black business owners are being denied business loans from banks despite having good credit scores and showing consistent annual profits.

According to the most recent data available from the U.S. Federal Reserve, Black business owners are denied loans by banks more frequently than any other racial group, reported St. Louis Public Radio.

St. Louis-based “sauce man” Freddie Lee James Jr. and his wife Deborah are among those Black business owners who’ve been denied. The couple says despite bringing in $200,000 annually in profit, banks will not give them a loan.

“We have 750-760 credit score. … We pay all our debts. We don’t have no problems with that. But they were saying that the sauce business is not generating enough capital to their standards,” James said.

Statistics show Black-owned businesses are twice as likely to be denied as their white counterparts. While some say its difficult for small business to get loans in general, Galen Gondolfi said racism and discrimination in lending exacerbates the issue for Blacks."
 
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