“Fox News host Megyn Kelly laid out evidence supporting what a disbelieving Bill O’Reilly called the “white privilege theory” Monday night to explain why the black community in Ferguson, Mo. feels justice won’t be served in the Michael Brown shooting.
Kelly ran down a list of statistics, including the disparity in employment between blacks and whites in Ferguson and that blacks are three times as likely as whites to be subjected to or threatened with force by police.
O’Reilly then challenged those numbers, claiming Attorney General Eric Holder really held the reins in the investigation into the fatal shooting of Brown, an unarmed black teenager, by a white police officer.”* The Young Turks hosts Ana Kasparian and Ben Mankiewicz (Turner Classic Movies) break it down.
*Read more here from Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/megyn-kelly-bill-oreilly-white-privilege-ferguson
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I believe what Grz100 is referring to is as below. From Wikipedia. However below is George Takei’s take on how impacted him. To this day, there is still a lot of problems with discrimination against black Americans and poverty is a big part of the problem. However, I have seen many poor black Americans go on to college and get jobs doing things like IT and other various things, was it easy for them to get into college? No, I have a friend that took her three tries before she was able to get the student loan approved so she could enter college. I applied and instantly got approved, being a white male.
“The internment of Japanese Americans was the World War II confinement of between 110,000 and 120,000[2] people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States. The U.S. government ordered the removal of Japanese Americans in 1942, shortly after Imperial Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.[3] The internment was applied unequally as a geographic matter: almost all who lived on the West Coast were sent to camps, while in Hawaii, where 150,000-plus Japanese Americans comprised over one-third of the population, only 1,200 to 1,800 were interned.[4] Sixty-two percent of the internees were American citizens.[5][6]”
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/actor-george-takei-shares-familys-story-wwii-internment-n163961
Megan comes to the table with a little research and numbers….. Bill just starts pulling shit out of his ass. haha
Don’t forget internment.