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Racism : A Statistical Approach

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Racism in America: A Statistical Approach
Brendan Fenton
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Yes, Racism Is Still a Problem in America (The Huffington Post)
Dr. Regina Davis-Sowers, PhD
September 15, 2016

Throughout the history of the United States, multitudes of social issues arise, fall, and repeat. In the modern day United States, many social issues are currently at hand including abortion, gender pay differences, the minimum wage, gun violence, police brutality, and seemingly excessive college tuition raises, to name a few. One issue that has been brought back to light within the last few years is racism. Many different headlines, buzzwords, and slogans shoot through media outlets including “Systematic Racism” (Bandler, 2016), “Black Lives Matter” (Black Lives Matter, n.d.), “Institutional Racism” (Michaelson, 2015), the list goes on. Many millennials and middle-aged workers are crying out in support and against these claims, calling this a social problem in an effort to show abnormality in the status quo (Davis-Sowers, 2016), as this condition has negative attributes related to individuals or the world that they live in (Leon-Guerrero). Claimsmakers throughout the United States continue to argue about the origins of racism and believe that whites have to power to stop

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