At the end of my last programme I raised the issue about what was happening in America with police stopping black drivers compared to white drivers. It’s one of the most frequent points of contacts between authority and white people and black people. So is it true, what the young journalist at the New York Times said to his boss, the editor-in-chief , Dean Baquet:
I just feel like racism is in everything. It should be considered in our science reporting, in our culture reporting, in our national reporting.
Well the statistics on police stopping cars driven by White and Black Americans don’t show anything like that. The figures from the Cato Institute research, undertaken by Emily Ekins, showed that higher income Black Americans were pulled over at 1.5 times the rate that higher income white Americans were (and there are not many in that category so this is not happening a lot of times), while lower income Black Americans are only pulled over at a slightly higher rate than low income white people. And that obviously is what mostly happens
So let’s dig deeper into what evidence there is of racism or no racism in America.
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