Title: This Is Proof That Institutional Racism Is Still Very Much A Problem
Headings: Proof That Institutional Racism Is Still A Problem
Proof That Institutional Racism Is Still A Problem
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Black job applicants are about half as likely as white applicants to get an interview callback.
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58 percent of prisoners are black or Hispanic, despite making up one quarter of the U.S. population.
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Black people are 12 times more likely to be wrongly convicted of drug-related crimes than white people.
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74 percent of black students and 80 percent of Latino students attend schools that are more than half-minority populations.
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13 percent of all black men are denied the right to vote.
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Asian American homebuyers are shown 20 percent fewer homes than white homebuyers.
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In 2013, the unemployment rate for black college grads was almost twice as high as the rate for grads overall.
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White families hold 90 percent of the national wealth. Black and Latino families combined hold less than five percent.

Content: The most recent work in this area suggests that black applicants are only 40-60% as likely as white applicants to receive a callback for an interview, even when the applicants' qualifications are the same." "It also doesn't matter if the applicants are applying for low-wage jobs that do not require college degrees, or applying for jobs with degrees from Harvard, Stanford, and the like," Gaddis continues. " African-Americans still face significant discrimination in the labor market." This disparity can be found across multiple fields. On resumes, on college applications, in elections, our culture still discriminates against names that don't sound white or male. 2
58 percent of prisoners are black or Hispanic, despite making up one quarter of the U.S. population. Scott Olson/Getty Images News/Getty Images
The way the justice system disproportionately affects people of color goes beyond wrongful convictions. The above statistic comes from the NAACP’s criminal justice fact sheet, which also mentions that in 2001 one in six black men had been incarcerated at some point in their lifetime. Overall, black people are incarcerated at six times the rate of white people. Ava DuVernay’s film 13th examines the way the criminal justice system disproportionately affects black people, specifically as it relates to the 13th amendment which abolished slavery.