Saturday Open Thread

Posted on March 26, 2016 by rikyrah

I hope that you are enjoying this weekend with family and friends.

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49 Responses to Saturday Open Thread

    • yahtzeebutterfly says:
      March 26, 2016 at 5:30 pm

      So now it’s working for the U.S. Postal Service and delivering mail “while Black”??

      Getting arrested while being a conscientious worker?

      Inexcusable treatment by LE of an innocent person!

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  19. SouthernGirl2 says:
    March 26, 2016 at 3:59 pm

    I don’t see Joy Reid tweeting about Hillary today.

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  39. rikyrah says:
    March 26, 2016 at 8:19 am

    But but but…I thought it was all about class though….

    Uh huh

    Uh huh

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    Poor white kids are less likely to go to prison than rich black kids

    By Max Ehrenfreund
    March 23

    It’s a fact that people of color are worse off than white Americans in all kinds of ways, but there is little agreement on why. Some see those disparities as a consequence of racial discrimination in schools, the courts and the workplace, both in the past and present. Others argue that economic inequalities are really the cause, and that public policy should help the poor no matter their race or ethnicity. When it comes to affirmative action in college admissions, for example, many say that children from poor, white families should receive preferential treatment, as well.

    In some ways, though, discrimination against people of color is more complicated and fundamental than economic inequality. A stark new finding epitomizes that reality: In recent decades, rich black kids have been more likely to go to prison than poor white kids.

    “Race trumps class, at least when it comes to incarceration,” said Darrick Hamilton of the New School, one of the researchers who produced the study.

    He and his colleagues, Khaing Zaw and William Darity of Duke University, examined data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, a national study that began in 1979 and followed a group of young people into adulthood and middle age. The participants were asked about their assets and debts, and interviewers also noted their type of residence, including whether they were in a jail or prison.

    The researchers grouped participants in the survey by their race and their household wealth as of 1985 and then looked back through the data to see how many people in each group ultimately went to prison. Participants who were briefly locked up between interviews might not be included in their calculations of the share who were eventually incarcerated.

    About 2.7 percent of the poorest white young people — those whose household wealth was in the poorest 10th of the distribution in 1985, when they were between 20 and 28 years old — ultimately went to prison. In the next 10th, 3.1 percent ultimately went to prison.

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    About 10 percent of affluent black youths in 1985 would eventually go to prison. Only the very wealthiest black youth — those whose household wealth in 1985 exceeded $69,000 in 2012 dollars — had a better chance of avoiding prison than the poorest white youth. Among black young people in this group, 2.4 percent were incarcerated.

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    What’s more, even young black people who follow the rules and are never incarcerated are less likely than similar white people to accumulate wealth as they get older. As of 2012, the median household wealth of black participants in the study who had never been incarcerated at some point in their lives was $16,200. Those who had been incarcerated had zero wealth at the median.

    Among white participants who had never been incarcerated, however, median household wealth was $192,000 by 2012. The median white participant who had been incarcerated reported wealth of $5,000.

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  40. rikyrah says:
    March 26, 2016 at 8:13 am

    Good Morning, Everyone :)

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