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by bluedino 1777 days ago
Non-black viewers are less likely to watch videos with black people in them.
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Is that because they are black though? Without asking those people why they watched something else you are just making the assumption it was to do with their skin colour and not anything to do with the content itself.

e.g. I don't watch a lot of content with women on Youtube. Not because I have anything against women. It because the subjects I am interested in, isn't covered typically by women.

> Is that because they are black though?

Bluntly, yes. A lot of people in the U.S. are implicitly or explicitly racist. You can see this in statistics, such as 'black-sounding' resumes consistently getting less callbacks than 'white-sounding' resumes [1].

[1]: http://www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/facbios/file/Whitening%20MS%...

Not sure why this was voted down (not entirely surprised though).

Perhaps an uncomfortable truth? That said, it would have been useful, if you provided a few (of the numerous) citations supporting your statement.