Top 10 Dear White America Quotes
1.) The amount of money wiped out by the misdeeds of the banksters is so large, it
would be like street criminals stealing what they now steal in a year every five hours,
everyday for a year.
And yet society is still more likely to fear a black or brown male crossing the street in our
direction than we are to fear white stockbrokers, hedge fund managers or financial
advisors…
2.) More than 100,000 businesses across the country, as many as 1.2 million instances
of overt job discrimination occur annually against blacks, Latinos and Asian
Americans, affecting as many as one-third of all job searches by persons of color in
the United States each year
o Alfred Blumrosen and Ruth Blumrose, The Reality of Intentional Job
Discrimination in Metropolitan America, 1999 (New Jersey: Rutgers University,
1999), www.eeol.com_NR/Title.pdf
3.) Research has found a white man with a criminal record is more likely to be
called back for a job interview than a black man without one, even when their
credentials are the same.
4.) Even High-income African Americans were more likely than low-income
whites to end up with a high-cost subprime loan, and up to half of the
subprime loans were given to people who should have qualified for lower
rates (and mostly would have, had they been white).
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Applied Research Center, Race and Recession: how Inequity Rigged the Economy and How to Change the
Rules (Oakland: Applied Research Center, May 2009), 37-39; Kathleen C. Engel and Patricia A. McCoy,
“The CRA Implications of Predatory Lending,” 29 Fordham Urban Law Journal 4 (2002), 1571-1606.
5.) Schools that serve mostly black and Latino students are also more than ten times as
likely as the schools most kids of European descent attend to be places of
concentrated poverty, and they are far less likely to offer a full complement of
advanced classes.
a. Daniel G. Solorzano and Armida Ornelas, “A Critical Race Analysis of
Latina/o and African American Advance Placement Enrollment in Public High
Schools,” The High School Journal (Vol. 87: 3, February-March 2004),
www.jstor.org/pss/40364293; Philip Handwerk, Namrata Tognatta, Richard J.
Coley, and Drew H. Gitomer, Access to Success: Patterns of Advanced
Placement Participation in U.S. High Schools (Princeton, N.J., Educational
Testing Service, 2008), www.ets.org/Media/Research/pdf/PIC-ACCESS.pdf
6.) On any measure of such work ethic—such as the number of hours put in on
the job, amount of time spent looking for work when unemployed, willingness
to work at a relatively low wage, and willingness to upgrade one’s skills and
retrain for a new job—there is either no racial difference between whites and
persons of color, or the differences that exist favor those who are black and
brown, suggesting an even greater desire on their parts twenty to sixty-four
years old and not working, whites are three times as likely as similar African
Americans to say that the reason they aren’t working is because they are “not
interested” in having a job; blacks who are not working are 2.5 times as likely
to be out of work because they can’t find work, despite looking consistently.
a. Nasrin Dalirizar, Reasons People do Not Work: 2004. P70-111 (United
States Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC, 2007).
7.) Remember that a disproportionate percentage of Asian Americans came to
the United States already having education and occupational status that
would place them in the middle class or above: large numbers, in fact, either
already had a college degree or were working on their degree at the time of
arrival here. This makes Asian Americans a highly self-selected immigrant
group—quite different from, and hardly comparable to, either native-born
African Americans, indigenous peoples or most Latinos, who came over a
contiguous border with the United States.
a. Stephen Steinberg, The Ethnic Myth (Boston: Beacon Press, 1989);
Fox Butterfield, “Why Asians Are Going to the Head of the Class,” New
York Times (education supplement), August 3, 1986; Gary Mar, “Are
Asians Model Minorities?” (2001),
http://academic.udaton.edu/race/01race/model01.htm; U.S. Federal
Glass Ceiling Commission, Good for Business: Making Full Use of the
Nation’s Human Capital (Washington, DC: Bureau of National Affairs,
March 1995), p. 107; Vijay Prashad, The Karma of Brown Fold
(Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2000), p. 75
b. Poverty rates, for instance, among Chinese Americans and
Vietnamese Americans are 50 percent higher than the poverty rates for
whites,; Korean American poverty rates are two-thirds higher than the
rates for whites; and poverty rates for Cambodian, Hmong and Lao
Americans are 2.5 times higher than white poverty rates.
c. www.asiannation.org/demographics.html
8.) Research on subconscious and implicit racial bias has found the vast majority
of society have internalized certain racist and prejudicial beliefs about people
of color.
a. Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, “See Baby Discriminate,”
Newsweek/The Daily Beast (September 4, 2009),
www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2009/06/04/see-babydiscriminate.html; “Test That Found Widespread Unconscious Bias
Validated,” ScienceDaily.com (June 18, 2009),
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090617142120.htm; Justin
Levinson, “Frogotten Racial Equality: Implicit Bias, Decision-Making
and Misremembering,” Duke Law Journal 57 (November 2007),
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=975793; Eben
Harrell, “Study: Racial Attitudes are Still Ingrained,” Time.com (January
8, 2009), www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1870408,00.html;
Shankar Vedantam, “How the Unconscious Mind Can Act Out Our
Prejudices,” Alternet.org (February 18, 20120),
www.alternet.org/books/145699/how_the_unconscious_mind_can_act
_out_our_prejudices_
9.) One recent Harvard study of society’s opinion about racism in America
discovered that most of society actually thinks (despite the voluminous data to
the contrary) that discrimination against the white society is more common
than discrimination against people of color.
a. “Regarding Racism: Whites Think They are the New Blacks,”
Gothamist.com (May 25, 2011),
http://gothamist.com/2011/05/25/racism_is_white_the_the_black.php;
Greogry Rodrguez, “The Unhappy White Majority,”
CharlotteOverserver.com (from the Los Angeles Times) (Jun 4, 2011),
www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/06/04/2348917/the-unhappy-whitemajority.html; Joan Walsh, “When Whites Say ‘What About Me?’”
Salon.com (May 226, 2011),
www.salon.com/2011/05/26/are_whites_facing_more_racism/
10.) There is now a significant body of research suggesting that the reason the
United States has such a feeble social safety net—a weak system of
unemployment insurance, limited cash-based support, palty food subsides,
inadequate public health care initiatives—is due to the perception on the part
of large numbers of society that black folks will abuse such programs if they
are too generous. In other words, our racial resentment of folks of color
(perceived as the ones taking advantage of any form of assistance for the
needy) leads to less support for strong safety net programs. Yet when the
economy craters and millions of society find themselves struggling to survive,
they too end up without the programs needed to support their families.
a. Martin Gilens, “’Race Coding’ and White Opposition to Welfare,”
American Political Science Review (1996), 593-595; Alverto Alesina,
Edward Glaeser, and Bruce Sacerdote, Why Doesn’t the U.S. Have a
European-Style Welfare State? (Harvard Institute of Economic
Research, Discussion Paper No. 1933, November 2001),
http://post.economics.harvard.edu/hier/2001papers/2001list.html