By Sanskriti Pandey:
The recent demonstrations in Baltimore protesting the killing of Freddie Gray have raised an important question that has been hiding behind a debatable sense of progress in recent times – is America truly a ‘post-racial‘ nation today?
If the US has indeed made progress in eliminating racism and encouraging equality, then the experiences of an average black person and an average white person in ordinary, everyday situations should be similar. This video tells you otherwise. ‘Brave New Films‘ explores eye-opening statistical evidence of an unequal society in America today in cleanly halved frames. Resumes with black-sounding names are 50% less likely to get a call back from employers, black people are charged roughly $700 higher than white people when buying cars, and black male teens are 21 times more likely to be killed by cops than their white counterparts, among others. “Something is wrong,” they say, “when we continue to NOT do anything about it.” Racism is Real – watch!
Sarath
Its not very evident, but it may be true. Its like one of those things people do not always talk about. And most of the statistics are corrupted because they forget to account for the fact that ony 13-14% of all US citizens fall under the African American category (especially the call back for interviews etc). It also varies from region to region. In states like Indiana, Tennessee etc it is quite evident. No black person gets hired to work in the front desk or a customer facing role including sales in these states although they never explicitly put that in their requirement or ad listing. But generally companies do hire people much more professionally, looking at their qualifications and experience. There no advantages of belonging to a certain race in USA. Although people talk about the token Black employee and token Hispanic employee in companies, who are hired just to make the work place more diverse, I found it quite untrue. There may be companies which do these kind of hiring but they are a minority. As far as police force is concerned, they are shockingly racist. If you wander the streets at night and you are a white man, police will ask you if you need a lift back home, however if you are black, much worse if you are a group of black men walking together, they will 100% search you for drugs, illegal weapons etc.