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this is jamal jamal is a boy who lives
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in a poor neighborhood he has a friend
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named kevin who lives in a wealthy
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neighborhood all of jamal's neighbors
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are african-american and all of kevin's
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neighbors are white because jamal school
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district is mostly funded by property
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taxes his school is not very well funded
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his classrooms are overcrowded his
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teachers are underpaid and he doesn't
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have access to high quality tutors or
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extracurricular activities kevin school
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district is also funded by property
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taxes so his school is very well funded
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his classrooms are never crowded his
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teachers are very well paid and he has
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access to high quality tutors and lots
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of extracurricular activities kevin and
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jamal live only a few streets away from
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each other so how come they're growing
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up in such different worlds with such
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different opportunities for success the
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answer has to do with america's history
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of systemic racism to understand it
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better let's look at what life was like
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for kevin and jamal's grandparents
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decades after the civil war many
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government agencies started to draw maps
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dividing cities into sections that were
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either desirable or undesirable for
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investment this practice was called
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redlining and it usually blocked off
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entire black neighborhoods from access
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to private and public investment banks
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and insurance companies use these maps
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for decades to deny black people loans
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and other services based purely on race
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historically speaking owning a home and
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getting a college education is the
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easiest way for an american family to
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build wealth but when jamal's
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grandparents wanted to buy a house the
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banks refused because they lived in a
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neighborhood that was redlined so
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jamal's grandparents were not able to
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buy a home and because colleges could
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prevent them from attending through
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legal segregation their options for
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higher education were really scarce
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kevin's grandparents on the other hand
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got a low interest loan to buy their
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first house and get accepted into a
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handful of top universities which
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traditionally only accepted white
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students this opened up a wealth of
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opportunities that they were able to
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pass on to their kids and grandkids even
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as late as the 1980s an investigation
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into the atlanta real estate market
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showed that banks were more willing to
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lend to low-income white families than
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to middle or upper-income
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african-american families as a result
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today for every hundred dollars of
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wealth held by a white family black
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families have five dollars and four
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cents a 2017 study confirms that
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redlining is still affecting home values
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in major cities like chicago today this
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explains how kevin and jamal inherited
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vastly different circumstances
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unfortunately the story doesn't end
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there a big part of systemic racism is
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implicit bias these are prejudices in
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society that people are not aware that
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they have let's go back to kevin and
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jamal against all odds jamal manages to
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be the only student from his high school
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to get accepted into a great university
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the same one that kevin and his high
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school friends are attending but after
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kevin and jamal both graduate jamal
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notices that his resume isn't drawn as
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much interest as kevin's even though
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they graduated from the same program
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with the exact same gpa unfortunately
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for jamal studies show that resumes with
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white sounding names get twice as many
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callbacks as identical resumes with
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black sounding names implicit bias is
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one of the reasons why the black
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unemployment rate is twice the rate of
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white unemployment even among college
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graduates today you can see evidence of
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systemic racism in every area of life
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the disparities in family wealth
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incarceration rates political
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representation and education are all
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examples of systemic racism
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unfortunately the biggest challenge with
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systemic racism is that there's no
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single person or entity responsible for
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it which makes it very hard to solve so
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what can you do the first thing you can
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do is work towards becoming more aware
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of your own implicit biases what are
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some prejudices that you might hold that
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you're not aware of second let's
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acknowledge that the consequences of
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slavery and jim crow loss are still
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affecting access to opportunity today as
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a result we should support systemic
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changes that create more equal
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opportunities for everyone increasing
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public school funding and making it
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independent from property taxes would be
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a great start so that poor and wealthy
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districts can receive equal access to
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resources systemic problems require
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systemic solutions luckily we're all
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part of the system which means that we
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all have a role to play in making it
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better
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peace
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