Friday, July 31, 2015

8 stats that show the dangers to Black Women: Sandra Bland would prob be alive if she were white.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/8-stats-reveal-just-how-badly-police-state-hurts-black-women?akid=13344.294211.0BbUX6&rd=1&src=newsletter1040172&t=1

1. Black women make up 6 percent of San Francisco’s population, yet made up 45.5 percent of all women arrested there in 2013.
2. In New York City and Boston schools districts, black girls are suspended and expelled at much higher rates than white girls.
3. Black women were locked up in state and federal prisons at more than twice the rate of white women.

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