Proof Of White Disprivilege

[SteelCrysis]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015.../?page=all

Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison says she wants to see an officer shoot an unarmed white teenager in the back before agreeing that the “conversation about race” is over, but she almost certainly already has received her wish.

An analysis released last week shows that more white people died at the hands of law enforcement than those of any other race in the last two years, even as the Justice Department, social-justice groups and media coverage focus on black victims of police force.

“People keep saying, ‘We need to have a conversation about race,’” Ms. Morrison told the (U.K.) Telegraph in an April 19 interview.
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Meanwhile, the deaths of whites at the hands of law enforcement typically receive less attention, even when the case is shrouded in controversy. For example, Gilbert Collar, an 18-year-old white student at the University of South Alabama, was shot and killed while naked, unarmed and under the influence of drugs by a black police officer.

The officer, Trevis Austin, was cleared of wrongdoing in 2013 by a Mobile County grand jury in a case that received little media coverage outside Alabama. Mr. Collar’s parents filed a federal lawsuit last year against the officer.

As researchers are quick to point out, FBI data on police shootings by race is notoriously incomplete, which may explain why Peter Moskos, assistant professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York, decided to use figures from the website Killed by Police.

Based on that data, Mr. Moskos reported that roughly 49 percent of those killed by officers from May 2013 to April 2015 were white, while 30 percent were black. He also found that 19 percent were Hispanic and 2 percent were Asian and other races.

His results, posted last week on his blog Cop in the Hood, arrived with several caveats, notably that 25 percent of the website’s data, which is drawn largely from news reports, failed to show the race of the person killed.

Killed by Police lists every death, justified or not, including those in which the officer had been wounded or acted in self-defense.

“The data doesn’t indicate which shootings are justified (the vast majority) and which are cold-blooded murder (not many, but some). And maybe that would vary by race. I don’t know, but I doubt it,” Mr. Moskos said on his blog.

Adjusted to take into account the racial breakdown of the U.S. population, he said black men are 3.5 times more likely to be killed by police than white men. But also adjusted to take into account the racial breakdown in violent crime, the data actually show that police are less likely to kill black suspects than white ones.

“If one adjusts for the racial disparity in the homicide rate or the rate at which police are feloniously killed, whites are actually more likely to be killed by police than blacks,” said Mr. Moskos, a former Baltimore cop and author of the book “Cop in the Hood.”

“Adjusted for the homicide rate, whites are 1.7 times more likely than blacks die at the hands of police,” he said. “Adjusted for the racial disparity at which police are feloniously killed, whites are 1.3 times more likely than blacks to die at the hands of police.”

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Wow. Its sad how much misinformation spreads. This huge uproar without real facts. i wonder if the real data will mean anything now.......

Kind of expect it not to

[SteelCrysis]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morni...-fen-chou/
This doesn't involve the police, but it's relevant to the topic.  White guy can't get his poem published because of white disprivilege, so he makes up a Chinese pen name.  Now he's being called racist for being forced to work in the racist system that was racist to him to begin with.

Things only got hairier when Alexie published a defense of his decision to keep the poem on Tuesday. In a blog post for the Best American Poetry Web site, Alexie explained that he read submissions blind, to the extent that he could. He didn’t look up authors to learn more about them or their past work.

“Each poem will stand or fall on its own merits,” went one of his 11 rules for reading.

And he acknowledged that he was “more amenable” to the poem because he thought its author was Chinese American. There was nothing explicitly culturally Chinese about the poem — indeed, it seems obsessed with imagery from Western culture — but that only made it more interesting to Alexie. The award-winning Native American author, who has been involved in the “We Need Diverse Books” campaign, said that “Yi-Fen Chou” benefited from a form of minority writer nepotism, just as many white, male writers have long benefited from white, male writer nepotism.

“I had to keep that pseudonymous poem in the anthology because it would have been dishonest to do otherwise,” he wrote. “If I’d pulled the poem then I would have been denying that I gave the poem special attention because of the poet’s Chinese pseudonym. If I’d pulled the poem then I would have been denying that I was consciously and deliberately seeking to address past racial, cultural, social, and aesthetic injustices in the poetry world.”

And, most importantly, Alexie wrote, if he pulled the poem, “I think I would have cast doubt on every poem I have chosen for BAP. It would have implied that I chose poems based only on identity.”

“But that’s not what happened,” he continued. “In the end, I chose each poem in the anthology because I love it. And to deny my love for any of them is to deny my love for all of them.”

Supporters called Alexie’s response “thoughtful” and “remarkably honest.” Others, including Chang, were unmoved.

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“If someone is fraudulently pretending they’re someone else to benefit from a system that traditionally benefits them, that is not ethical,” she said. “I would have taken it out.”

Eve Ewing, a writer, teacher and editor studying race and education at Harvard, wrote a long series of tweets disputing Alexie’s point. Promoting people who are usually marginalized is not the same kind of “nepotism” that white writers benefit from, she said. And including a poem whose origins were racist, as Ewing put it, defeats Alexie’s stated goal of making the Best American collection more diverse.

What a bunch of BS. How many writers have published in alternate/pseudo names? These people are just made because it shines light on an ugly truth........on they cant handle


Has anyone read this poem? Is it posted online somewhere?

[SteelCrysis]

Here's the poem, the link is also in the article: https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=s...3.chou.pdf

[SickBeast]

This seems like a stupid topic for a tech forum and actually a stupid topic in general. You don't think whites have an advantage in the USA? Do we need to post some statistical data? For a very long time black people were severely disadvantaged in the US and they still have not recovered from it.

[SteelCrysis]

Well, whites don't.  When employers want to encourage anybody to work for them, they encourage anybody and everybody except for whites, heterosexuals, intersexuals (those who were born hermaphrodites), and asexuals.  As I've posted earlier, a white person getting killed by a cop generates no outrage, and whites are more likely to be killed by cops than blacks after adjusting for crime rates.

On top of all of that, there's this most recent outrage.  The statistics don't lie: 40 attempts to get the poem published failed when he used a white name, but the poem was published with an Asian name in 10 attempts: https://books.google.com/books?id=ZmF5Cg...es&f=false

[SickBeast]

That's just one example. Look at all your politicians and CEOs down there. You won't see a lot of diversity.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/29/news/eco...diversity/

http://thisnation.com/congress-facts.html

Look at the senate in particular.

[SteelCrysis]

Look at professional sports. Blacks are there in massive disproportion to population. Whites, not so much.

[SickBeast]

Ugh. You don't get it.