Jury awards white Police Lieutenant 1.35m in racial discrimination lawsuit

[gollygee]

5. This is one institution

but when you look at the US in general, a disproportionate number of white people do hiring and bring in their conscious or subconscious biases when they do so. People of color are not immune from having and responding to internal biases either, but there aren't as many in positions where they hire so it has a smaller effect on society.

Overall, white men with criminal records have an easier time getting a job than black men without criminal records. (You can Google that if you want.)

If a white person faces discrimination in one workplace, they only need to apply to another workplace to escape it. But people of color face discimination of this sort in workplace after workplace after workplace. Anyone can have biases, that isn't in question. What is an issue is what group has power and shapes society, intentionally or not, with their biases.

Also, I wonder whether it is easier for a white person to find a sympathetic jury in a discrimination suit.