Here's why black & brown ppl are furious
🤰🏿 Black women are 3 to 4 times more likely to experience a pregnancy-related death than white women, even at similar levels of income and education
👮🏻‍♂️ Black ppl were up to six-times more likely to be stopped by police than white people.
🏠 White British people have higher than average home ownership rates ⁠— nearly double that of black Caribbean people and more than treble that of black African people
🎓 British students are more than three times as likely to achieve high grades than black Caribbean students
💰 Average hourly pay for black people hovered between £9.91 and £10.80 between 2013 and 2018, while white people saw wages consistently rise from £10.58 to £11.87.
🦠 COVID-19: Black and Caribbean ppl are 10 to 50% more likely to die than white folks
🧬 Black people have a lower life expectancy because more of them live in areas of deprivation compared to the general population.
🔒 Black ppl are more than three times more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act. 
👨🏽‍💼 highest unemployment rate of any ethnicity at 9%
🏠 In 2017-18, black households were more than five times more likely to be designated as ‘statutory homeless’ in England
🚔 Black people are three-and-a-half times more likely to be arrested than white people. Black women are twice as likely to be arrested than white women.
👩‍⚖️ Black people serve prison sentences which are 50% longer than those for white people. In 2017, the average length of sentence for a young black adult was 28 months, compared to 19 months for a young white adult.
👨‍⚖️Young black defendants are twice as likely to be denied bail.
🚨 A third of all police custody death in the past two years were black men
So you better check yourself before embarrassing yourself and denying black struggle, and employing the term "reverse racism" when the whole system is built against us.
If you want the sources for this, just go and ask Google, free and available a plenty
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