Title: 10 ways white people are more racist than they realize | Salon.com
Headings: 10 ways white people are more racist than they realize
10 ways white people are more racist than they realize
Progressives like to believe they're enlightened, but they're no less vulnerable to their implicit biases
By Kali Holloway
Kali Holloway

Content: A third study found that white people feel less empathy toward black people in pain than they do for whites experiencing pain. Advertisement: Advertisement
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3. White people are more likely to have done illegal drugs than blacks or Latinos, but are far less likely to go to to jail for it. A 2011 study from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive found white people were more likely to use illegal and prescription opiates (heroin, oxycontin), hallucinogens, and cocaine than blacks and Hispanics by significant margins. Black people just edged out white people on marijuana and crack use ( which incurred disproportionate sentences for decades). Yet, a 2009 Human Rights Watch study found that each year from 1980 to 2007, blacks were arrested on drug charges at rates 2.8 to 5.5 times higher than whites. 4. Black men are sentenced to far lengthier prison sentences than white men for the same crimes. A 2012 study by the United States Sentencing Commission found black men were sentenced to prison terms nearly 20 percent longer than white men for similar crimes.