My 2 cents. I honestly don’t know from a legislative standpoint how much more can be done to help blacks get on equal footing in this country. Maybe that is my coming from my blind, naive white privilege but I really don’t.
If their goal is to stop police from killing blacks then they are trying to stop something that happens rarely anyway. I’m sure we are all aware whites are killed by cops more than blacks are. The rebuttal to that always seems to be that they make up 13% of the population but account for 25% or so of police killings. But blacks also commit roughly 50% of the murders in the country which leads me to believe they may be more likely to interact with the cops in a violent way.
I’ve heard the study about black sounding names not getting as many call backs on their resume. But that was basically limited to first names like Lakeisha or Jamal. When historically black last names like Jefferson or Washington were looked at there was no difference in call backs. If anyone cared enough to do a study on white hillbilly names like Betty Sue or Jim Bob or Bubba I wonder if it wouldn’t yield the same results as Lakeisha or Jamal.
Any degree of better is better and if there is something that can be done to help further black opportunities then it should be done. But I have to admit that sometimes I just kinda shrug my shoulders like “what else can we do?” from a legislative standpoint. But there legitimately might be a ton that I’m just missing.
I’m still in the camp that the greatest obstacle to blacks escaping poverty is the absence of black fathers.
My two cents.
