re: Question regarding the black power fist at NFL games today

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How can I deny that black patients are prescribed pain meds at a significantly less rate than white patients?

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Link? Did they document what the patient came in for? Why pain meds were/weren't prescribed?

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How can I deny that black TODDLERS get punished and suspended more severely than white toddlers.

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Link? Did they make sure to document what the punishment was for and if the children received the same amount of warnings?

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How can I deny that banks give out less loans and higher interest rates to black applicants?

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Link? Are the comparable income, debt-to-income, and credit factors observed?


There are factors other than race that play into all of the things you have pointed out. I know you don't want to see it that way, but it's just like a study posted in the last year that said black men were more likely to receive the death penalty for killing a white woman than a black woman. What the study failed to pull from the data which they sourced was that black men were three times more likely to commit sexual assault then kill a white woman where domestic violence was the number one reason for a black man to kill a black woman. Notice how adding one statistic to the narrative changes it? Doesn't it seem more likely that a man who rapes and kills a woman he doesn't know would receive a harsher penalty than a man who lost his temper in an argument and shot or stabbed someone he knew in a fit of rage?