-Researchers from the University of Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released the

results of a study last year, which revealed that white sounding names were 50 percent more likely to
get a call back on a job application. Thats with the same resume and same qualificationsbut just the
sound of an applicants name can trigger racial biases.
-So white Americans tell a neighbors son about a job, hire a friends daughter, carry the resume of a
friend (or, for that matter, a friends boyfriends sister) into the bosss office, recommend an old school
mate or co-worker for an unadvertised opening, or just say great things about that job applicant whom
they happen to know. But since most Americans, white and black, live virtually segregated lives, and
since advantages, privileges and economic progress have already accrued in favor of whites, the
additional advantages that flow from this help go almost exclusively to whites,
-They found that an African-American male with an associates degree has around the same chance of
getting a job as a white male with just a high school diploma.

-Caucasian students receive more than three-quarters (76%) of all institutional merit-based scholarship
and grant funding, even though they represent less than two-thirds (62%) of the student population.
-Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin. Abigail Fishers rejection and subsequent blame on
affirmative action is rooted in her privilege of never hearing no and never having to justify her admission
beyond the insinuation that a person of color had her spot.
-Half of 2000-2014 black college graduates in the U.S. report graduating with more than $25,000 in
undergraduate student loan debt. By comparison, 34% of recent white graduates report similar levels of
debt, revealing a large borrowing gap between the races.

-African-American millennials faced a 16.6 percent unemployment rate, compared to a 7.1 percent rate
for whites of the same age range (18 to 34 years old).
-Today, the average Black family has only one-eighth the net worth or assets of the average white family.
That difference has seemingly grown since the 1960s, since the Civil Rights triumphs, and is not
explained by other factors like education, earnings rates or savings rates. It is really the legacy of racial
inequality from generations past. No other measure captures the legacy the cumulative disadvantage of
race for minorities or cumulative advantage of race for whites than net worth or wealth.
-Wall Street banks and lenders took advantage of consumers throughout the lead-up to the housing crisis,
and this report shows that the lending, at times, was even more predatory when targeting blacks and
Latinos. In fact, 30.9 percent of Latinos and a whopping 41.5 percent of blacks were given higher-priced
loans by large banks, compared to just 17.8 percent of white borrowers.

-Most recently, convicted rapist Brock Turner was portrayed in the media as a good student while his
mugshot was almost never released, but it was after a grueling battle between the media and the police.
While his conviction was being called a fall from grace and his sentence that was going to have a
severe impact on him and his future, there are many other people of color whose mugshots are
plastered everywhere crimes that are equal or lesser, or even pictures of people who were killed by police
who are depicted almost as the villain and not the victim. If you were to google Trayvon Martin right now, I
can guarantee the first picture you see of him will be him in a hoodie, not his smiling school picture.

-Black and Hispanic students represent more than 70 percent of those involved in school-related arrests
or referrals to law enforcement. Currently, African Americans make up two-fifths and Hispanics one-fifth of
confined youth today. 96,000 students were arrested and 242,000 referred to law enforcement by
schools during the 2009-10 school year. Of those students, black and Hispanic students made up more
than 70 percent of arrested or referred students. Harsh school punishments, from suspensions to arrests,
have led to high numbers of youth of color coming into contact with the juvenile-justice system and at an
earlier age.