Is this white privilege?

September 9, 2015: The appealed case affirmed by this month's US Supreme Court decision:

http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/texas-department-of-housing-and-commu...

February 2, 2016: Is white privilege the reason that this new UN human rights committee finding is not appearing in the US mainstream media, despite February being Black History Month in the United States? The UN committee recommends that slavery reparations should be paid in the USA.

Link: http://m.phillytrib.com/metros/u-n-panel-suggests-slavery-reparations-in-u-s/art...

From the 2004 US book The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks, here is an excerpt: http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1042&context...

From a few years ago, some interesting examples of white privilege from the BuzzFeed website:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelblackmon/17-harrowing-examples-of-white-privilege...

This week, the NYTimes asks whether Georgetown University should make financial restitution for its historically outsized benefits from the slave trade:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/us/georgetown-university-search-for-slave-desc...

At the 2016 Rio Olympics, the NYTimes reports that a multi-medaled (including gold) African American swimmer raises US expectations for swim classes opening to all African American children, despite decades (if not centuries) of white-led swim class exclusion:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/16/well/swimming-simone-manuel-black-children.htm...

Some of you remember the three Louisiana 12-year-old African American kids a few years ago who drowned in a river because none of them could swim.

In the August 2015 issue of Mother Jones magazine, the article How White Is My Valley? examines the role of Chicago's Rev. Jesse Jackson in revealing the previously secret diversity statistics of Silicon Valley:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/tech-industry-diversity-jesse-jackso...

In my opinion, having worked as a systems analyst in a California technology company, employee diversity helps make technology relevant.

Video report from DemocracyNow on systematic discrimination toward minority populations by US banks:

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/2/15/kept_out_banks_across_us_caught

From the journal Gastronomica, which just declared free access to its database through June 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic:

White Privilege in a local food movement:
https://gcfs.ucpress.edu/content/20/1/59

A comprehensive analysis of the US COVID-19 death rate among US Latinos:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/coronavirus-causing-historic-decimation-lati...

Apologies for the following magazine firewall. Medical researchers in the US state of Michigan find that pulse oximeters, an essential diagnostic tool in the diagnosis of the COVID-19 illness, evidently discriminate against some ethnic groups and against *all* women:

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/04/08/how-medicine-discrim...

There are two factors identified in the significant US increase in maternal deaths during the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The first is race/ethnicity:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2793640?widget=pers...

The second is US postal zipcode:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/08/08/1116264151/poll-1-in-5-seri...

It is when these factors are combined that the onset of a pandemic turns particularly deadly for these population groups.

The divergent health outcomes of two adjacent Boston, MA neighborhoods:

https://news.yahoo.com/really-disturbing-boston-residents-living-155440197.html

Those differences only increased in the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A basic Western psychological test is actually deeply flawed:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-marshmallow-test-and-other-predictors-of-s...

At the top of the list of things that frustrate me are any blatant attempts like the following to suppress materials on the subject of white privilege:

https://ktla.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-pentagon-directs-military-to-pull-...

A white US citizen, until recently a Canadian citizen with a US green card, discusses the dramatic level of white privilege associated with the controversial 2026 US ICE enforcement methods:

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02/how-white-privilege-plays-into-immigratio...