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Clearly you’ve never been pulled over by a cop for a DWB — Driving While Black.

They're saying it's the most explicit form of institutional racism, since it's (1) so blatant and out in the open and (2) centrally mandated instead of a byproduct of a few renegade individuals.

That's not to say that it's necessarily the most impactful form of institutional racism.

Explicit vs impactful.

All told, I'd rather get into an inferior school over discriminatory treatment by police for life, with an outside chance of a genuinely horrific situation occuring that'd cost me my life.

But the discrimination against AA applicants is institutional and intentional in a way that police discrimination against blacks is not. For AAs, the solution is simple: stop discriminating against someone just because they're Asian. The question of how to get more equitable policing is endlessly discussed and debated, because it's subtle and relies on personal psychological biases, not policies intentionally constructed to discriminate.

I found it very interesting during college I drove a beater car. I got pulled over by cops ALL THE TIME. For some reason all that magically changed when I managed to purchase something nice. Curious? no?

Have you? How did it go down?

Nobody knows if a specific pullover is a DWB pullover (i.e. one motivated by racism, unconscious or conscious) or a legitimate outcome of a random draw. That kind of phenomenon can only be teased out with a lot of data.

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