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  1. Feb 2025
    1. NPR cites that the majority of mass shootings have been committed by males. Of these, the vast majority have been white males.

      Many would argue that the white men are mentally ill and shouldn't have firearms but innocent colored men would get killed despite not showing any threat to federal officers. Some point out that faulting mental health of white men deflects from the violence of white male heteropatriarchy.

    1. results in Black students receiving more punishment and harsher discipline than white students. Studies show in particular that Black and Latinx children are criminalized in schooling.

      Relatedly, Portillos, Gonzalez, and Peguero (2011) show the criminalization of Latinx students also in terms of immigration status. This trend of preferential treatment is not only with white educators but also with white administrators.

    2. Studies and even popular news and technology sources recognize that self-driving cars can be racist. Self-driving cars weren’t created to recognize people of color that are in front of the car and are therefore more likely to hit people of color.

      The engineering field was mainly dominated by white men and only tested the self driving car with white people, not those of color.

    1. However, when a white woman gave birth to a child that was mixed with Black and white, she was also punished for it. White men were not punished for having mixed race Black and white children.

      California struck down anti-miscegenation laws in 1948. The last of the anti-miscegenation laws were struck down in 1967 in the Loving v. Virginia case.

    2. Thus, the one-drop rule, known as an anti-miscegenation law, was created in the 1600s. This rule declared any person with a single drop of Black blood to be Black.

      This law was created as there were more multiracial kids defunding the "all free whites are eligible for citizenship" people who also question this naturalization law included Asians, Indians, etc. Who had fair skin. Multiracial children (half white half black, result of rape) were also questioned their right for citizenship.

    3. Slavery, for example, was an economic, political, cultural, and social system which was the law.

      Couldn't be avoided as government was involved with slavery laws; impacted society back then and now.