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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (740124)

9/17/2013 9:52:23 PM

From: one_less

Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1574060

Let's put another myth to rest.
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/race-death-row-inmates-executed-1976

National Statistics on the Death Penalty and Race

Execution information accurate as of September 11, 2013 following an execution in Oklahoma

Race of Defendants Executed in the U.S. Since 1976

BLACK	463	35%
LATINO	104	7%
WHITE	753	56%
OTHER	24	2%

NOTE: The federal government counts some categories, such as Hispanics, as an ethnic group rather than a race. DPIC refers to all groups as races because the sources for much of our information use these categories.

Race of Victims Since 1976

BLACK	302	15%
LATINO	130	6%
WHITE	1505	77%
OTHER	50	3%

NOTE: Number of Victims refers to the victims in the underlying murder in cases where an execution has occurred since the restoration of the death penalty in 1976. There are more victims than executions because some cases involve more than one victim

"In 82% of the studies [reviewed], race of the victim was found to influence the likelihood of being charged with capital murder or receiving the death penalty, i.e., those who murdered whites were found more likely to be sentenced to death than those who murdered blacks."
- United States General Accounting Office, Death Penalty Sentencing, February 1990

Persons Executed for Interracial Murders in the U.S. Since 1976

The cases represented here are cases of one defendant executed for the murder of one or more victims of one race. Cases involving multiple victims of several different races are not included here.

White Defendant / Black Victim (20)

Black Defendant / White Victim (262)

Executions for Interracial Murders

Current U.S. Death Row Population by Race

BLACK	1,300	41.83%
LATINO	389	12.52%
WHITE	1,341	43.15%
OTHER	78	2.52%

Death Row Population Figures from NAACP-LDF "Death Row USA (April 1, 2013)"

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (740124)	9/18/2013 5:18:42 AM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574060

Not necessarily between races, but certainly between colors. Every kid knows that black is totally different from white, later on 'some' may not quite understand that, however :) /Taro

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (740124)	9/18/2013 7:19:54 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 1574060

LOL!!! Clueless Joe!!

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (740124)	9/18/2013 7:45:34 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574060

No, it's the opposite of racist.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (740124)	9/18/2013 8:27:37 AM
From: Brumar89	3 Recommendations Recommended By FJB simplicity TideGlider Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574060

Searching for a credible racial element on which to hang a racial description in "At least 12 dead in Navy Yard shooting; possible suspect at large," The Washington Post has taken to injecting race into racial descriptions when they can find a describer of the right race.... As in Two Navy yard employees interviewed on CNN said they were fired on in a hallway by a gunman they described as a tall black man. A woman who gave her name as Terry Durham said that as she and co-workers were evacuating, she saw a man down the hall raise a rifle and fire toward them, hitting a wall. “He was tall. He appeared to be dark-skinned,” she said. “He was a tall black guy,” said her co-worker, Todd Brundage, who is black. “He didn’t say a word.” That last sentence, for no notable reason other than chagrin, was later changed to: "'He was a tall black guy,” said her co-worker, Todd Brundage. “He didn’t say a word.' " americandigest.org Saw this interview. The white woman said, "He appeared to be dark-skinned." Then the black guy beside her said, "He was a tall black guy." In DC, white people can't say someone is black.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (740124)	9/18/2013 8:49:29 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574060

Diversity in Bay area high tech companies - a "trade secret": Google, Don't Be HypocriticalSearch engine wrongly fights to hide employment data about race and gender of employees By Owen Thomas \| Monday, Feb 15, 2010 \| Updated 2:27 PM Latham Jenkins Googlers don't want you to know how white and male they are. Here's a question for which you can't Google the answer: How diverse is Google's workforce? Despite its supposed mission to "organize the world's information," Google has fought to hide data about the race and gender makeup of its workforce. The San Jose Mercury News reported that it had fought for 18 months through Freedom of Information Act requests to obtain data collected by the Department of Labor about the employees of Google and 14 other large Silicon Valley employers. The question of diversity cuts to the core of Silicon Valley's values. Investors, entrepreneurs, and managers love to tout the technology industry's so-called meritocracy, in which talented workers rise quickly to the top. And yet the reality is that the technology industry remains dominated by white males, especially in management. Google, Apple, Yahoo, Oracle, and Applied Materials successfully argued against the release of the data, claiming it would cause them "commercial harm." Hewlett-Packard also tried to fight the request, but its lawyers did not provide the detailed objection requested by the government, and its data was released. The numbers are telling: The 10 companies whose data was released saw employment rise from 1999 to 2005 even as the number of African-American and Hispanic employees and managers dropped. Only 2,200 of 30,000 employees in 2005 and only 300 out of 5,900 managers were were Hispanic or African-American. Approximately 29 percent of the Bay Area's population is Hispanic or African-American. Google does talk about diversity -- but only when it suits its purposes. In testimony before Congress, Google's top HR executive, Laszlo Bock, actually claimed he didn't know how many African-American employees the company had. His answer seemed improbable at the time, given the company's commitment to gathering data and measuring every aspect of its business. Marissa Mayer, a high-profile vice president at the company, disclosed to radio station KQED in 2008 that the company aims to have 25 percent of its technical workforce be female. Has Google met its own internal benchmark? We don't know, because the company won't allow the release of data that would tell us. Arguing, as Google has, that statistics about the race and gender of its employees and management are trade secrets is embarrassing. But not, perhaps, as embarrassing as the actual numbers. nbcbayarea.com