Andrew Wayne Austin <aaustin@utkux.utcc.utk.edu>
>I have charted official US unemployment rates since 1960 and have found
>that the black rate of unemployment is two to three times that of whites.
>Both rates move up and down together reflecting the business cycle. I have
>also charted the differences in the income levels between US blacks and
>whites at the same level of educational attainment, and have found that
>blacks makes roughly 2/3 of what whites make. These figures remain very
>stable over time.
These figures are bogus. Black males make roughly the same incomes as white
males of the same age and education. College graduate black females have
high average incomes than college graduate white females.
>I have always taken these facts as supporting the reality of racism. I
>cannot see any other explanation. The burden of proof always rests with
>the person making the claim; I understand this. And my claim that racism
>permeates the United States, just as one example, is supported by these
>facts I have produced here. Now if somebody, for the sake of intellectual
>advancement, would be so kind as to demonstrate to this list that these
>numbers can be explained by another theory, I would love to hear it.
>
>In any case, "institutional racism" is perhaps a redundancy. Racism is by
>definition institutionalized.
Whose definition would that be?
It seems to me more plausible to think that there are racist, non-racist and
anti-racist institutions, and that in the main racism is a personal and
cultural affliction rather than an institutional one.
-dlj.