SOC 134 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Colin Kaepernick, Immigration Act Of 1924, Lebron James
Document Summary
Celebrities (colin kaepernick, beyonce, miami heat) use their voice to stand up for what they believe in. Formalized into a statement: ongoing inequality. Educational inequality: whites tend to have smaller and better school districts, blacks and hispanics tend to have poorer school districts with lower achievements: ongoing shootings of unarmed black men. Ongoing empirical evidence of racial inequality in the criminal justice system. Rolling evidence of specific question of shootings. Chart: black, hispanic, and whites have all had increased number of shootings via law enforcement, but there is a stark difference showing blacks are more susceptible. Reasons to be optimistic: legally enforced racism no longer exists, institutional integration and diversity is seen as an asset, we elected the first black president: barack obama, today"s youth are more open minded than any generation before. Reasons to be concerned: insistence of hate crime, far ranging employment inequalities.
