In 20 18, the average black worker earned 62% of what the average white worker earned. Per capita income for black people was forty two % lower than for white people. White people are six times larger than black people in the population but they have 17 times the family wealth. Black people are less likely to get home loans and their school districts are less funded. They have markedly worse health outcomes in birth, mortality, cancer, cove, et cetera. Police officers implemented stop frisk strategies in new city that unfairly targeted black and brown people. The department of justice looked at policing after michael Brown was killed, found that even though black people are more likely to be illegal or contr
Dr. Shermer speaks with John McWhorter about his new online book on how the antiracism movement poses a threat to progressive America. Shermer and McWhorter discuss: antiracism as a religion; the 3 waves of antiracism; the antiracism trinity: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robin DiAngelo, Ibram X. Kendi; white fragility; Black Lives Matter; systemic racism (incarceration rates, housing, jobs, income, etc.); reparations; George Floyd, Tony Timpa and police violence; the N-word and language as violence; and Third Wave Antiracism catechism.