the data skews against blacks, as a whole, in many areas of society: poverty, education, employment, health care, medical disabilities, homelessness, incarceration rates, mortality, and on and on...
One example: deaths at the hands of cops occurs at a disproportionately higher rate, per capita, among blacks and latinos than white..not even close
whites make up more than 71% of the US population; Latinos 18% ; and blacks 13%, and yet they total less than half of all people killed by cops...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/ but numbers will not convince anybody who believes racism in America is nonexistent...
it's supposed to be equal for all, but when that change happened, it's like the white status quo said, OK , we'll give them their Civil Rights and their Voting Rights, so they're now equal...but we'll insure they get crappy schools, we'll let local govt. establish restrictive real estate policies to keep them hemmed in, until the SCOTUS says they're illegal, we'll keep restrictive hiring practices in place for decades until SCOTUS says they're illegal...they're gonna have to fight for every inch all the way to the SCOTUS on every aspect of life...and now the Voting Rights Act was not re-newed...really...GOP leaders who orchestrate restrictive voting laws have been caught on video acknowledging their efforts are to suppress minority voting...
if the marathon race for equality began in 1964 and 1965, when non-discrimination was ruled the law of the land: then the white majority that kept blacks in legal inferior positions by legal segregation had a huge advantage in running the race: superior starting place as far as access to good schools K-college, superior neighborhoods, superior opportunities and superior jobs...negative attitudes by most whites about blacks didn't change over night: attitudes of business leaders, political leaders, police...barriers to black progress were rarely removed or improved upon...the playing field remains tilted in favor of whites
