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Sarah Palin Applauds Brexit Vote: "The EU Is a One World Government Mini-Me!"

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Blind Frog Belly White6/25/2016 8:29:57 am PDT

re: #624 HappyWarrior

I suspect he knows that but he also knows that just saying Chicago makes some individuals think left wing. Remember, it’s always the go to whenever Obama talks about crime I don’t see what happened in the 60’s though is relevant to what he’s saying about job applicants there with more “black-sounding names” getting less call back than white ones though.

As an aside, the way the study determined ‘black associated’ and ‘white associated’ names was pretty cool. They took the birth certificates from Massachusetts from 20 years before the study, separated them by race, then just put together a list of the names on each. They then determined which names were more exclusive to which list.

The study itself is a clever way to tease out racism built into the system, because it completely removes the variable of an actual applicant. And that, of course, is why wingnuts have to discredit it - it demonstrates the existence of white privilege that can’t be refuted by saying it’s the black people themselves just THINKING they’re being discriminated against.