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165. John McWhorter — The Elect: Neoracists Posing as Antiracists and Their Threat to a Progressive America

The Michael Shermer Show

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Anti Black, Anti Racism

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

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