‘Ghetto Shanaynay’? How Jasmine Crockett’s Statistical Slip Gave Racists An Excuse To Change The Conversation [Op-Ed]
During a panel focused on voting and civic engagement, U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett argued that Black women have been disproportionately harmed by the Trump regime’s attacks on DEI in the workforce. The post ‘Ghetto Shanaynay’? How Jasmine Crockett’s Statistical Slip Gave Racists An Excuse To Change The Conversation [Op-Ed] appeared first on MadameNoire.
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Do y’all remember back in 2007 when then-presidential candidate Barack Obama said, “We have more work to do when more young Black men languish in prison than attend colleges and universities across America?”
That emotionally powerful statistic went viral and kept being repeated for years across social media and beyond even though it wasn’t true. In fact, Howard University professor Ivory Toldson pulled the receipts and found that more than 1.4 million Black men were enrolled in college compared to around 840,000 who were incarcerated.
You would think folks would have learned from that episode to fact-check and stop repeating catchy statistics just because they make us feel good or because they fit a certain narrative we want to believe.
But here we are again.
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