Impacts

You may think that race does not impact you, but according to Prof. Chermak (2013) whether you are aware of it or not, certain races receive benefits.

• Whites are LESS likely to be pulled over by the police and receive a ticket or have their car searched.  
• Whites are LESS likely to receive the death penalty, but if it is a white victim and a black suspect, it is 21 more times likely that the death penalty will be issued. 
• Whites are MORE likely to be in the news if they are the victim of a crime. 
• Blacks are over represented in crime alerts and are perceived as CRIMINALS. 
• Blacks are incarcerated at nearly 6 times the rate of whites. (NAACP 2013).