(We are offline due to a much-needed research period at the moment, so we've decided to re-publish some earlier pieces you might have missed the first time.)
Calling 911 on black people may soon be a crime in parts of Michigan, Oregon and New York (h/t Steve Sailer ). Why are Afro-Americans profiled so endlessly? We took a look at the data, and here's what we found.
[Re-post, original post here.]
In the outcry following the recent acquittal of Floridian George Zimmerman in the shooting death of an Afro teenager, many in the black community have voiced their displeasure. Canadian graduate student Matthew Simmermon-Gomes is one:
What I do know is what it’s like to be a Trayvon Martin. To be suspect. I do know what it’s like to be followed by staff in a nice clothing store; to be stopped by police for walking down the street; to endure the thousand micro-aggressions and the hundred fearful looks, the patronising astonishment coupled with quiet indignation at my education or erudition. I know, in other words, what it is to be a person of colour in a world that privileges whiteness.
