Racism Is Not in America's DNA | Short Clips

It is impossible to imagine American culture without jazz, without the Blues, without hip-hop. It's impossible to imagine American cinema without regrettably birth of a nation It's impossible to imagine American literature at this point without James Baldwin, without Tony Morris And all of these, other than the primary, the secondary, and territory. fruits of slavery and so if you strip slavery out of America If you strip black people out of America you really don't have in America Is racism still a major problem in America? President Barack Obama certainly thinks so he said that racism is in our DNA Really if racism is in our DNA doesn't that mean it's immutable? Unchangeable, but America has changed and dramatically So in 1960 60 % of Americans said they would never vote for a black president Almost 50 years later. The black man who said racism is in America's DNA was elected president and four years later Reelected that's only the most obvious example of racial progress. There are many others Take interracial marriage as William H fry of the Brookings Institution wrote sociologists have traditionally viewed multiracial marriage as the benchmark for the ultimate stage of assimilation of a particular group into society black/white marriages were still illegal in 16 states until 1967 And in 1958 Gallup poll found that only 4% of Americans Approved of black/white marriages. Today, that number is 87 percent. In 1960, all marriages by blacks only 1.7 percent with black white Today, it's 12 percent and rising Now what about racial profiling and abuse of blacks by police? Doesn't that prove that racism remains a major problem in the summer of 2014? Ferguson Missouri became ground zero for this accusation when a white policeman shot and killed an unarmed black teenager While a Department of Justice investigation of the incident cleared the officer of any wrongdoing It did accuse the city's police department of racial bias But what was the Justice Department's reports most headline-grabbing stat the gap between the percentage of blacks living in Ferguson 67% and the percentage of those stopped by police for traffic violations who are black Eighty-five percent an 18-point discrepancy racism right not so fast Black's comprise 25% of New York City But for 55% of those stopped for traffic offenses a 30 point discrepancy far bigger than that of Ferguson Why isn't the NYPD a department that is now majority minority considered even more? institutionally racist than the Ferguson PD The answer is you cannot have an honest discussion about police conduct without an honest discussion of black crime Though blacks are 13% of the population they commit 50% of the nation's homicides and Almost always the victim is another black person Just as most white homicides are against other whites in 2012 according to the Center for Disease Control police killed 123 blacks while by the way killing over twice that many whites But that same year blacks killed over 6,000 people again mostly other blacks What about traffic stops? Unlike when responding to dispatch calls police officers exercised more discretion when it comes to traffic stops There are four racist cops can have a field day when it comes to traffic stops, right? Actually. No the National Institute of justice is the research agency of the Department of Justice in 2013 the National Institute of Justice published a study called race trust and police legitimacy Three out of four black drivers admitted that they were stopped by the police for a legitimate reason Blacks compared to whites were on average more likely to commit speeding and other traffic offenses The Institute wrote seatbelt usage is chronically lower among black drivers if a law enforcement agency aggressively enforces seatbelt violations police will stop more black drivers The NIJ is conclusion. These numerical disparities result from differences in Offending in other words and not because of racism similarly the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also found that blacks violate traffic laws at Higher rates than whites in every offense whether it's driving without a license not wearing a seatbelt not using a child safety seat or speeding if I injure you The injury persists even after I actually commit the AK If I stab you You may suffer complications of long after that initial actual stabbing if I shoot you you may suffer complications long after that initial Shooting that's the case with African Americans. They're people well within the living memory of this country They're still suffering from the after-effects that is there. Still racism in America, of course there is but Racism is not in America's DNA recent history and a lot of research and data prove it as liberal Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson said America is now the least racist white majority Society in the world Has a better record of legal protections of minorities than any other Society white or black Offers more opportunities to a greater number of black persons than any other society including all of those of Africa Patterson by the way is black. I'm Larry elder for Prager University