Ok Freelee, I educated myself. Here are the actual facts on systemic racism.
This video will be monetized and the revenue earned will be donated to NAACP. (EDIT: Youtube deemed this video as "content likely to offend a marginalized group" so they've limited the ads... ugh. Either way, fundraiser is still going & I decided to also donate the ad revenue from the new video on my channel - the one that came out after this one - to the cause)
About NAACP - The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is to secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights in order to eliminate race-based discrimination and ensure the health and well-being of all persons.
WATCH 13TH TO EDUCATE YOURSELF ON THIS TOPIC - youtu.be/krfcq5pF8u8
ALSO WATCH THIS ABOUT THE RACIAL WEALTH GAP - youtu.be/Mqrhn8khGLM
SOURCES:
✅ US makes up 5% of global population, yet nearly 25% of world’s prison population - aclu.org/issues/smart-justice/...
✅ Capitalizing on Mass Incarceration - sentencingproject.org/publicat...
✅ Prison labour in America - theatlantic.com/business/archi...
✅ African Americans and whites use drugs at similar rates, but the imprisonment rate of African Americans for drug charges is almost 6 times that of whites. - naacp.org/criminal-justice-fac...
✅ Race & wrongful convictions - law.umich.edu/special/exonerat...
✅ “How Can We Win” Rant by Kimberly Jones - youtube.com/watch?v=llci8MVh8J...
✅ Racial Wealth Gap facts - hitc.com/en-gb/2020/06/03/expl...
✅ CRACK VS POWDER COCAINE - aclu.org/other/cracks-system-2...
✅ Lee Atwater Southern Strategy - thenation.com/article/archive/...
✅ 1/3 of black men have felony convictions - sentencingproject.org/news/559...
✅ Most criminal cases end in plea bargains - theoutline.com/post/2066/most-...
✅ Kalief Browder Story - newyorker.com/news/news-desk/k...
✅ African Americans are 2.5 times more likely to be killed by police than white people - citylab.com/equity/2019/08/pol...
✅ Black victims of police brutality are more likely to be unarmed - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/...
✅ Data on police and racial bias - vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/da...
✅ Racial bias in police shootings - journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
✅ The 18.5 number and why it’s BS - currentaffairs.org/2018/06/how...
✅ More racial disparities in policing - 5harad.com/papers/100M-stops.p...
✅ Black drivers in Missouri are 91% more likely to be stopped by cops - cnn.com/2019/06/11/us/missouri...
✅ Stop & frisk - nyclu.org/en/stop-and-frisk-da...
✅ School Funding inequalities - nbcnews.com/news/latino/segreg...
#blacklivesmatter #racism #BLM
