| you have the relationship backwards. Race is a proxy for class because class is largely forced upon race in active and passive ways. This is almost purely racial, and class is included because we have forced lower class status on minorities in ways that are increasingly designed to appear 'objectively race neutral'. The system is no longer racist in the way that people perceive, it is far more insidious because it effects the same outcome in the same way, but with cries of objectivity. As examples of why this is about race and not class: * High minority schools are more likely to have security apparatus (e.g., metal detectors) even after class is partialed out. Amazingly, the likelihood of security at a school is not significantly correlated to actual crime in the area or in the school. [1] * Drug arrests are incredibly racially charged [2]. Despite more white teenagers both using and dealing drugs, black teenagers are more likely to get arrested for drug possession or use. When arrested, they are more likely to be charged and are sentenced to longer periods of time [3]. This occurs even in Colarado [4]. The follow-on effect of these arrests and guilty pleas is that black teenagers are then inelligible for many forms of government educational aid that is necessary for them to attend college. * Are you familiar with the 'magical negro' trope in TV? [5] It is actually an empirically researched phenomenon that white people think black people have a higher pain tolerance, extrasensory perception, and superhuman strength [6] * This occured in 1997: "Duane Buck was sentenced to die in Texas based on testimony of a psychologist who told the jury that Buck was more likely to be dangerous in the future because he is Black"[3] He is still on death row because that wasn't considered a large enough effect on the trial to influence the outcome. [1]http://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1... [2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/30/white... [3] https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/141027_iachr... [4] https://www.buzzfeed.com/amandachicagolewis/marijuana-arrest... [5] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicalNegro [6] http://spp.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/10/03/194855061455... |