OT: Did the NBA just open up a can of worms?

I think that it seems as if you don't have a very good grasp on what institutional racism is in the first place. You seem to be under the impression that it's necessarily an active sort of thing. It can be wholly incidental.

You were provided with one piece of data and rather than at least mulling it over you did that thing people do where they demand research set to such ridiculous specifications that it is borderline impossible for anyone to produce.

Things like housing discrimination for black people are real. There is a reason Donald Sterling was fined a record amount for his totally insane practices, and if you think that sort of thing isn't widespread, I've got a bridge to sell you.

Look at stuff like prison sentencing, stop and frisk of even arrest rates. 

Here is an article on the crack epidemic: 

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2010/08/03/data-show-racial-dispari…

What the study found is that in 1994 even though white people make up the majority of crack users, through some weird alchemy 84.5% of defendants convicted in crack cases were black as opposed to 10.5%. It's the same way across the board with every single drug. White people use drgs as often, sometimes more than blacks, yet somehow black people are arrested and convicted of drug use at a disparity that is shockingly absurd.

Look at this study on racial profiling: 

http://www.civilrights.org/publications/reports/racial-profiling2011/th…

The breakdown is essentially...

• Per 10,000 residents, the Black stop rate was 3,400 stops higher than the White stop rate

• Frisked Blacks were 42.3 percent less likely to be found with a weapon than frisked Whites

• Consensual searches of Blacks were 37 percent less likely to uncover weapons, 23.7 percent less likely to uncover drugs, and 25.4 percent less likely to uncover any other type of contraband than consensual searches of Whites

So black people were far, far, far more likely to get stopped, but the data shows that they were far less likely to carry a weapon. I'm sure that now we're aware of the situation, police will adjust accordingly and begin to severely reduce the amount of black people they stop, while increasing the amount of white people they stop, right?

Even a report from the 2003 Guidance Regarding the use of Race By Federal Law Enforcement Agencies basically admitted that racial profiling is both racist and ineffective:

• "Racial profiling" at its core concerns the invidious use of race or ethnicity as a criterion in conducting stops, searches and other law enforcement investigative procedures. It is premised on the erroneous assumption that any particular individual of one race or ethnicity is more likely to engage in misconduct than any particular individual of another race or ethnicity.
• Racial profiling in law enforcement is not merely wrong, but also ineffective. Race-based assumptions in law enforcement perpetuate negative racial stereotypes that are harmful to our rich and diverse democracy, and materially impair our efforts to maintain a fair and just society."

http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/spl/documents/guidance_on_race.pdf

So despite that admission, it still happens basically everywhere.

Look at the controversial NYPD Stop and Frisk policy via this report:

http://www.nyclu.org/publications/report-nypd-stop-and-frisk-activity-2…

• "Of blacks and Latinos who were stopped, 57.5 percent were frisked, while 44.2 percent of whites who were stopped were frisked. Yet, a weapon was found in only 1.8 percent of blacks and Latinos frisked, as compared to a weapon being found in 3.8 percent of whites frisked. These figures strongly indicate that race is a factor in officer decisions to frisk a person."

Here is a comprehensive overview of multiple reports indicating how minorities unfairly targeted and how they are treated more unfairly once they've been detained:

http://www.civilrights.org/publications/wrong-then/traditional.html

• A U.S. Department of Justice report on police contacts with the public concluded that in 1999, African Americans were 20 percent more likely to be stopped than White Americans, and 50 percent more likely than Whites to have experienced more than one stop.19 Police were more than twice as likely to search an African American or Hispanic driver than a White driver.20
• In the three-year period from January 1995 to December 1997, Blacks comprised more than 70 percent of the drivers stopped and searched by the Maryland State Highway Patrol, although they made up only 17.5 percent of the overall drivers (and overall speeders).21 These disparities were explained by a state document called the "Criminal Intelligence Report," which contained an explicit policy targeting Black motorists.22

• A study of traffic stops on the New Jersey Turnpike between 1988-1991 found that Blacks were 35 percent of those stopped, though only 13.5 percent of the cars on the turnpike had a Black occupant and Blacks were only 15 percent of all traffic violators.23 A 1999 State Attorney General's Report studying Turnpike stops and searches in 1997-1998 concluded that almost 80 percent of searches involved Blacks and other minorities.24

• In the early 1990's, an investigation of the practices of the Volusia County, Florida Sheriff's Department revealed that although Blacks or Hispanics were only five percent of the drivers on a portion of I-95 that ran through the county, they were nearly 70 percent of drivers stopped on that stretch of highway. Blacks and Hispanics were not only stopped more than Whites, they were also stopped for longer periods of time than Whites.25

Even more stuff from the report...

• to a Department of Justice survey of 1999 traffic stops, officers found contraband more often when they searched Whites than when they searched African Americans (17 percent versus eight percent).58
• In 2000, New Jersey State troopers found contraband during stops of White-driven vehicles 25 percent of the time, while they found contraband during stops of Black-driven vehicles 13 percent of the time and Latino-driven vehicles only 5 percent of the time.59
• According to the GAO report on U.S. Customs Service practices, while Black female U.S. citizens were nine times as likely to be x-rayed following a frisk or pat-down as White female U.S. citizens, they were less than half as likely to be found to be carrying contraband after these x-rays.60 According to the New York Attorney General's Report on NYPD "stop and frisk" practices, stops of minorities were less likely to yield arrests than stops of Whites. The NYPD arrested one White New Yorker for every eight stops, one Hispanic New Yorker for every nine stops, and one Black New Yorker for every 9.5 stops. The statistics for stops engaged in by the NYPD's plain clothes Street Crimes Unit were even starker - this unit stopped 16.3 Blacks per arrest, 14.5 Hispanics per arrest, but only 9.7 Whites per arrest.61
• Recent data from the LAPD indicates that while White pedestrians were stopped and searched by LAPD less per capita than Black or Hispanic pedestrians, the hit rates for all three populations were about the same: 21 percent of White pedestrians who were searched by LAPD were found in possession of evidence of a crime, as compared to 22 percent of Blacks and 20 percent of Hispanics.62
• Traffic stop data from Massachusetts from April 2001-November 2002 reveals that 16 percent of Whites searched were charged with a drug offense, as compared to 12 percent of Blacks and 10 percent of Hispanics, despite the fact that both Blacks and Hispanics were stopped and searched more than Whites.63

• Because police will look for drug crime among Black drivers, they will find it disproportionately among Black drivers. More Blacks will be arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and jailed, thereby reinforcing the idea that Blacks constitute the majority of drug offenders. This will provide a continuing motive and justification for stopping more Black drivers as a rational way of using resources to catch the most criminals.76
• And, indeed, this prophecy has come to pass. As noted earlier, while Blacks are just 12 percent of the U.S. population and 11 percent of drug users, and despite the fact that racial profiling yields no more (and often fewer) arrests of minorities than of Whites for drug crimes, Blacks are 38 percent of those arrested for drug offenses and 59 percent of those convicted for drug offenses.77 Similarly, while Hispanics make up about 13 percent of the population and 10 percent of illicit drug users, they are 37 percent of the overall prison population.78 Moreover, more frequent stops and then arrests of minorities also result in longer sentences for minorities because disproportionate arrest rates generate more extensive criminal histories for minorities, which in turn influence sentencing outcomes.79

So that's just a fraction of the evidence we have for just that one singular issue. It's clear that there is by definition, institutional racism playing out in our country in terms of who gets profiled and stopped.

There is even more information like this on prison sentencing once they have been found guilty of a crime, and break downs of all of that info too.

Then you have plenty of issues like de facto segregation caused by white flight destroying a lot of the tax base in neighborhoods, which creates a shit spiral that only gets worse over time. Stuff like hiring practices, equal pay for equal work, admissions into uniersities. and all sorts of other stuff that get thrown into the pot

This post is already long enough as it were, so I'll stop here.