RACE in America DOES MATTER!

• 70 Percent of Anti-LGBT Murder Victims Are People of Color
• While people of color make up about 30 percent of the United States’ population, they account for 60 percent of those imprisoned. 
• Report: Immigration Status and Race Affect Domestic Workers’ Pay
• Once convicted, black offenders receive longer sentences compared to white offenders. The U.S. Sentencing Commission stated that in the federal system black offenders receive sentences that are 10 percent longer than white offenders for the same crimes.
• Marijuana Prohibition Turns 75, Blacks Three Times More Likely to be Arrested Than Whites
• According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, one in three black men can expect to go to prison in their lifetime.
• A number of states have bans on people with certain convictions working in domestic health-service industries such as nursing, child care, and home health care—areas in which many poor women and women of color are disproportionately concentrated.
• African Americans were twice as likely to be arrested and almost four times as likely to experience the use of force during encounters with the police.
• The prison population grew by 700 percent from 1970 to 2005, a rate that is outpacing crime and population rates. The incarceration rates disproportionately impact men of color: 1 in every 15 African American men and 1 in every 36 Hispanic men are incarcerated in comparison to 1 in every 106 white men.
• [TW: Rape] Canadian police accused of abusing native women
• CNN breaks down the numbers: > Nearly nine out of 10 people “stopped and frisked” under a controversial New York Police Department policy in 2011 were African-American or Hispanic.
• The War on Drugs Is Really a War on Minorities
• Martin Luther King assassinated by US government: MLK civil trial decision
• George Zimmerman was acquitted