Racism: In Business or Government? Seven Years Later
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Channel: Shane Killian · 2016 · News & Politics
Seven years ago, I showed that, while businesses were easily shown to have equal representation among the races, that's seldom the case with government. I decided to redo the video with up-to-date statistics. Things haven't changed much. I also demonstrate how the Progressive era was born out of racism and eugenics, and how they haven't changed their policies in that regard, just the rhetoric used to sell them to the people. UNITED STATES QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/00 Labor Force Characteristics by Race and Ethnicity, 2014 http://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/race-and-ethnicity/archive/labor-force-characteristics-by-race-and-ethnicity-2014.pdf Census Bureau Reports the Number of Black-Owned Businesses Increased at Triple the National Rate https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/business_ownership/cb11-24.html African-American Legislators 2009 http://www.ncsl.org/research/about-state-legislatures/african-american-legislators-in-2009.aspx 114th Congress is most diverse ever http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/01/12/114th-congress-is-most-diverse-ever/ Crack-Powder Disparity - Testimony of Wade Henderson http://www.civilrights.org/advocacy/testimony/henderson-crack.html Eugenics and Economics in the Progressive Era, Journal of Economic Perspectives 19(4):207–224, Fall 2005 https://www.princeton.edu/~tleonard/papers/retrospectives.pdf The Eugenics Plot of the Minimum Wage https://fee.org/articles/the-eugenics-plot-of-the-minimum-wage/
