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(8,709 posts) Wed May 11, 2016, 12:01 AM May 2016

tweet thread of "new studies" that found things Black people been saying all our lives

@ImFromRaleigh aka Jonathan, holds a Masters in Education and graduates from Harvard this May. He's one of those internet famous guys who often leads discussions that range from determining which fast food restaurants serve the best fried chicken (*cough* Popeyes) to disparities in education. This morning, he launched into a thread of tweets of new studies that describe issues that minority communities have complained of, literally forever. These studies show the myriad of issues that minorities face and how race can influence just about everything, even if we don't realize it. Most of the studies were published in the last 2-3 years showing that these issues have long been overlooked and why the Shriver Center's Racial Justice Training Institute is so important. https://storify.com/WhitneyWJD/new-studies

Too many to list here because tweeters(?) are contiuously posting studies. But I like @ImFromRaleigh's new addition at the very end of this small list

Survey finds black fathers more involved in children's lives than white fathers
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/dec/20/local/la-me-black-dads-20131221

A new study from the Public Religion Research
Most white Americans generally believe that protests are good for the country, but they hold significant reservations about protests led by African Americans,” Dr. Robert P. Jones, CEO of Public Religion Research Institute, said in a press release. “Among white Americans, strong support for protesting government mistreatment drops dramatically among whites when protesters are identified as black Americans.https://www.colorlines.com/articles/white-americans-think-protesting-improves-nation%E2%80%94unless-black-folks-are-involved

Why White People Downplay Their Individual Racial Privileges
In the past year, the killings of unarmed black men by police officers, as well as a mass shooting in a black church in South Carolina, have garnered enormous media attention. The shootings have become touch points in a larger discussion about race relations and racial bias in the United States.
Stanford Graduate School of Business

Study suggests link between gun ownership, racism
Are gun ownership and racism linked? Researchers have found that the more racist beliefs held by a white person, the more likely the person is to own a gun - conclusions that have rankled gun rights advocates. Washington Times

New Study Finds That Racism Makes Black Men Old
A study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine has shown that racism may accelerate aging in African-American men. Researchers at the University of Maryland found signs of accelerated aging in African-American men who reported high levels of racial discrimination and who had internalized anti-black attitudes, UMD Right Now reports.

Study: White teachers are less likely to expect academic success from black students, especially black boys. http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teaching_now/2016/03/bias.html?cmp=soc-edit-tw …

Reviewers will find more spelling errors in your writing if they think you're black
You're reading this article. Should it change your opinion of the piece's quality to know that its author was white, black, or of another race? No, if you're evaluating it on its merits. Yet a new study by the consultancy firm Nextions shows that reviewers of a legal brief did just that. http://www.vox.com/

Harvard University study finds that black federal judges are much more likely to be overruled than white judges http://ow.ly/ZETCU
'Black judge effect': study of overturning rates questions if justice is really blind
A Harvard analysis found that black federal district judges are significantly more likely to be overruled than their white counterparts, suggesting not just implicit bias but racism within the...
theguardian.com

Study finds that in Jim Crow era, half of black-white wage gap could be explained by differences in school quality.http://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-REB-35040 …

White Americans Are Biggest Terror Threat in U.S.
White Americans are the biggest terror threat in the United States, according to a study by the New America Foundation. The Washington-based research organization did a review of “terror” attacks on US soil since Sept. 11, 2001 and found that most of them were carried out by radical anti-government groups or white supremacists. http://www.globalpost.com/article/6592741/2015/06/24/white-americans-are-biggest-terror-threat-united-states

BREAKING: New study proves you can save a lot of time and money by listening to Black people. ]@ImFromRaleigh

Also found too many to list on a friend's Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150731114699956&set=pcb.10150731114724956&type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150731114689956&set=pcb.10150731114724956&type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150731113839956&set=pcb.10150731113869956&type=3&theater