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<h1>Race Inequality in America by Graph, from Crime Sentencing to Income</h1>
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<p>Most <a
href="http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/death-penalty/us-death-penalty-facts/death-penalty-and-race">
death sentences are handed out for killing white people</a>, even
though African-Americans make up 50% of murder victims (they are only
12% of the population).</p>
<p><img src="cid:part1.09030306.06000503@freedomarchives.org"> </p>
<p>So if an African-American male had <a
href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/15/justice/florida-loud-music-trial/">
fired ten shots into the SUV of some white suburban kids playing their
music too loud, killing one of them, I think we all know there would
have been a murder conviction </a> and almost certainly a death
penalty imposed.</p>
<p><a
href="http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/death-penalty-black-and-white-who-lives-who-dies-who-decides">
In case of conviction for murder, African-Americans are 38% more likely
to be handed the death penalty</a> than members of other racial
groupings.</p>
<p><img src="cid:part2.08050008.06000000@freedomarchives.org"> </p>
<p> <a
href="http://www.juancole.com/2013/07/african-americans-numbers.html">reprinted
graphs: </a> :</p>
<p>88% of African-Americans in a 2013 Pew poll <a
href="http://zeusitup.com/african-americans-are-feeling-the-discrimination/">
said that there was “a lot” (46%) or “some” (42% )</a> discrimination
against them. </p>
<p>Only 57% of whites agreed, and only 16% of whites said there is “a
lot” of discrimination against African-Americans:</p>
<p><img src="cid:part3.07090305.07050403@freedomarchives.org"></p>
<p>Average <a
href="http://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/race-and-economic-inequality/">
household net worth of whites: $110,000</a>.</p>
<p>Average household net worth of African-Americans: $5000</p>
<p><img src="cid:part4.09000309.05030308@freedomarchives.org"></p>
<p>The wealth gap between <a
href="http://www.tcf.org/blog/detail/graph-the-wealth-gap-between-blacks-and-whites-has-tripled-since-1984.-here">
white and African-American families tripled between 1980 and 2009,</a>
according to the Century Foundation:</p>
<p><img src="cid:part5.08080809.04090707@freedomarchives.org"></p>
<p><a
href="http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/news/2012/03/13/11351/the-top-10-most-startling-facts-about-people-of-color-and-criminal-justice-in-the-united-states">
1 in every 15 African American men </a> are incarcerated in comparison
to 1 in every 106 white men</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sentencingproject.org/template/page.cfm?id=122">
Or consider it this way </a> </p>
<p><img src="cid:part6.08080304.00040608@freedomarchives.org"
height="319" width="570"></p>
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