How Friendly White People Drive Black Unemployment

March 29, 2013 Subscribe · Forward How Friendly White People Drive Black Unemployment There's a comforting-to-white-people fiction about racism and racial inequality in the United States today: They're caused by a small, recalcitrant group who cling to their egregiously inaccurate beliefs in the moral, intellectual and economic superiority of white people. The reality: racism and racial inequality aren't just supported by old ideas, unfounded group esteem or intentional efforts to mistreat others, said Nancy DiTomaso, author of the new book, The American Non-Dilemma: Racial Inequality Without Racism. They're also based on privilege, she said -- how it is shared, how opportunities are hoarded and how most white Americans think their career and economic advantages have been entirely earned, not passed down or parceled out.  Continue reading... Zimmerman's Brother (Sort Of) Apologizes Rick Ross Responds To Date Rape Lyric Controversy PHOTO: India Arie Accused Of Lightening Her Skin How Kim Kardashian Plans To Raise Her Bi-Racial Child PHOTO: Beyoncé For Vogue UK? Yea Or Nay: Chaka Khan's Sassy Birthday Boots PHOTO: Beyoncé For Vogue UK? Porsha Williams Completely 'Blindsided' By Divorce How Friendly White People Drive Black Unemployment Tina Turner Lands First-Ever Vogue Cover! Richard Pryor Biopic Makes A Major Change KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR 10 Things I Wish I'd Known Before Turning Pro How to approach young women in a mature and non-self-conscious way. I towered over most women by a foot and half. I felt like Darth Vader approaching a bunny. Plus, it's not a real turn-on for them to be staring up my nostrils. Continue reading... MARC H. MORIAL Hear Ye Hear Ye, Justice Scalia: Voting Is a Right The 2012 elections may long be over, but the conversations -- and actions -- that encouraged and enabled voter suppression measures across the country linger. But this time, the discourse isn't coming from partisan legislators. This time, it is coming from our highest court -- and it is indeed troubling. Continue reading... DANIELLE MOODIE-MILLS Does Time Need a Timeout? We have come too far to just relegate the gay and transgender experience to sex; we are full and complex people worthy of more than two tawdry images to tell the breadth and depth our story. Continue reading... MIKE RYAN Tyler Perry's Temptation: How Bonkers Is This Movie? (And 24 Other Urgent Questions) Today, a new movie directed by Tyler Perry (Star Trek) that conveniently has the director's name in the title, Tyler Perry's Temptation -- or, if you want to be a real stickler, Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor -- is playing at your local multiplex. Since it wasn't screened for press, I became one of 37 people on Thursday night to purchase a ticket for the 10:00 p.m. showing near Union Square in New York City. As a service, I went ahead and answered every question you could possibly have about Tyler Perry's Temptation. Continue reading... LARRY STRAUSS The Real Racism in Our Schools: Low Expectations or Delusional Thinking? In the mid-1990s, the school district I work for informed all the high schools that they were no longer allowed to teach basic math. Math teachers who challenged the ruling were told that they were expressing a racist point of view. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003