lundi 18 août 2014

Count all the votes, please: America is not all black and white




Funny how no one bothers to ask how Hispanic Americans, Asian-Americans, Muslims, Native Americans, etc. feel about the work of local police in their communities in combating urban crime. Makes you feel kind of "left out."

America is not all black and white.

Other minorities may face discrimination, worse than what some blacks experience.  It's just that these other minorities don't talk about, dwell on, or exaggerate/magnify those negative experiences.  And that experience of prejudice is often from other minorities, particularly African-Americans (not African immigrants).

In the largest state of the Union, California, Hispanic Americans constitute the largest minority, with Asian Americans second, and, in numbers, African-Americans far behind the aforementioned two groups.  Yet the two groups are practically invisible in terms of the popular national consciousness (except in Texas perhaps).



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