[john mirse]

Children “of color” are ten times more likely to get suspended can look bad until you find out that children “of color” comprise 70% of the student body in the public schools there.

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I live a long way from Minnesota.

Question: How did the Minneapolis school system come to be 70% non-white? Where did all the white people suddenly go?

What is the percentage of blacks? By Hispanic,are we talking about mostly Mexicans, or are we talking about people from all over Latin America?

Many people from Latin America are classified as white. They are the descendants of Spanish conquerors and later Spanish immigrants to Latin America. You can see these people in soap operas on the Spanish-speaking cable channels.

What brings/attracts blacks and Hispanics to Minneapolis in the first place? What kind of jobs attract them to such a cold climate?

I thought that Minnesota was one of the whitest of all the states.

[Chickensoup]

This is the same as the game about racial disparities in white black drug crime sentencing.

Where looked at in more detail it is found that

Blacks are often armed when arrested which increases sentencing

Blacks often fight back when arrested which increases sentencing

Blacks often have larger amounts of drugs on them which increases sentencing.

When these confounders are held even, sentencing is similar.

[Sasparilla]

Here are the stats for 2913 for the Minneapolis schools.

http://studentaccounting.mpls.k12.mn.us/Racial_Ethnic.html