by David Morse | Uncategorized
Here’s a survey that should take a bite out of the persistent meme that blacks are the Angriest Americans. American Rage, a survey commissioned by NBC and Esquire magazine, showed that whites and Republicans are the angriest Americans. In a response to the...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
Despite nearly a quarter of U.S. Latinos living in poverty, the group as a whole has a higher average life expectancies than white Americans, who have a much lower poverty rate. This article from Yes magazine has some theories as to why. It’s about Latino...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
The 2016 election is fascinating and unprecedented for several reasons. One reason is that there are two Latinos running for the GOP nomination, and are considered to be favorites of the party establishment. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are both freshmen senators, both...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
As if the news weren’t depressing enough these days, here is a study showing that minority teens are less hopeful they’ll see the age of 35 than white teens. In a recently published study in the journal Health and Social Behavior, researchers mined the...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
There’s a fascinating article in The Atlantic about the plight of minority millennials. Black and Latino millennials, specifically, are less likely to receive parental financial help, and more likely to give assistance to parents. Recent polls indicate that a...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
A new study released by the Consumer Federation of America shows drivers in predominantly black communities can face car insurance rates upwards of two times as much as drivers in white communities. According to the report: Most states prohibit the consideration of a...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
It’s not due to a sudden surge of non-white births, or increasing immigration. In fact, Mexican-Americans are starting to move back home to Mexico in larger numbers. The drop in white Americans will be due to what the Census considers “white.” In the...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
You’ve heard of Ben Carson by now. He’s the one besting Trump at the moment for the GOP nomination. Ben Carson who believes the pyramids in Egypt were built for storing grain among many, many other, um, questionable theories about everything. He’s...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
By now you’ve seen or at least heard about the video with the South Carolina police officer pulling a black female student from her desk and throwing her across the room. A federal civil rights investigation has been opened and the officer’s past conduct...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
One of the most contentious or California’s new laws is a strengthening of the state’s racial profiling law. It’s about hard data, and it forces all law enforcement organizations to report the race of every person stopped by officers. Police associations...
