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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Facts: OP was speeding, got a ticket, had to pay ticket. She  thinks she deserved to be let off the hook or it's racism. [/quote]
Isn't the same logic applied to the infamous cases in Ferguson and NYC? Or is it okay to think so for some people and not others? :roll:

NP on this thread, but in other threads I asked time and time again for at least one personal example where people were held back because of their race. No one came forward. My opponents just kept on chanting Ferguson slogans or whatever. I'm sorry, but "systemic" and "wide-spread" just doesn't do it for me. No specific examples? No problem then.[/quote]Rigorous research shows that the same resume with different names attached to it will get a different level of response.  A name typically associated with a black person (eg, Nakeia) is statistically less likely to get a call back than a name typically associated with a white person (eg, Jennifer).  So if your name is Nakeia and you're sending out resumes and not getting responses, you don't know whether it's because you're black or not.  But just because you don't know doesn't mean it isn't happening.  This is backed up by research.[/quote]
Link?

It is very annoying that you seem to know for a fact this is happening, yet dismiss OP's experience based on her race. If you want to change the world, you need to stop with yourself. [/quote]

http://www.nber.org/digest/sep03/w9873.html
Here's a link to a research study and this is not the only study that confirms this.  Feel free to google and find more.

Uh, OP's story is an anecdote.  If we had a large sample of experiences where we could compare them statistically, I'd be more likely to accept OP's version of it without question.  However, you are jumping to conclusions about my position on OP's experience.  I am the person who said that OP could be right but there is no way of knowing (but even it were true, I wasn't going to lose sleep over it).  I say this based on personal experience where I jumped to conclusions about what was happening and found out later that I was wrong.  Kind of the way you're jumping to conclusions about my position on OP's experience. [/quote]

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