25 simple charts to show friends and family who aren't convinced racism is still a problem in America

More than two years after nationwide protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, conversations about the way Black Americans are policed are still going on.

There are many ways in which Black Americans experience life in the United States differently than whites.

It's called systemic racism because it's ingrained in nearly every way people move through society in the policies and practices at institutions.

The data shows that there are differences in employment, wealth, education, home ownership, healthcare, and incarceration.

There are 25 charts that show the differences between the black and white experience in the US.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Asians are more likely to work in management, professional, and related occupations than whites, Blacks, and Hispanics.

Racist hiring practices kept Blacks out of business for a long time. Today, it can be explained by more subtle forms of prejudice.

Black and Asian people who use "American" or "white" names on their resume get more callbacks for corporate interviews, according to one Harvard University study. Only 10% of black candidates got calls when they left ethnic details on their resume, compared to 25% of white candidates.

If your company is mostly white, it can be problematic to rely on employee social networks for referrals. Three quarters of white employees don't have any non- white friends.

Black, Hispanic, and Latino Americans have higher rates of hospitalizations and deaths than whites, according to data from the CDC.

The director-general of the World Health Organization said in the beginning of the Pandemic that earthquakes can increase inequalities.

Black Americans have higher rates of underlying health conditions that could put them at a higher risk of developing the novel coronaviruses.

They hold essential jobs at a higher rate than other people. According to a 2020 study from the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Black Americans make up 12% of the workforce, but account for 17% of frontline workers.

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics' analysis of 2020 data, black men were 12.4 times more likely to be imprisoned than their white peers, and black men of all ages were 5.7 times more likely to be imprisoned.

The Black imprisonment rate has dropped by 34% since 2006 according to an analysis of historical data.

Black Americans are more likely to be imprisoned than other groups. There were 2,272 inmates for every 100,000 black men in the year.

According to the American Civil Liberties Union's analysis of marijuana arrest data from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, the racial disparity in marijuana arrests has not changed.

The racial disparity has gotten worse despite reforms to marijuana policies. Black people were 3.31 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than white people over the course of a decade.

The people arrested, convicted, and/or imprisoned for marijuana offenses have been disproportionately harmed by the marijuana arrests that continue to the present day, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. The waste of money and law enforcement resources has only deepened the divide between communities and their governments.

The Justice Lab at Columbia University has found that black people are more likely to be under parole supervision. Most states still retain the practice of releasing some inmates from prison early in exchange for heavy supervision, even though the federal prison system has largely abolished parole.

There is an extreme disparity when it comes to parole supervision. White people are less likely to be under parole supervision than black people. They are more likely to be re-arcerated due to "technical" parole violations, meaning that they had parole revoked due to minor transgressions such as missing an appointment, rather than committing a new crime.

Even though some of the supervision requirements may seem neutral or sensible, they may be hard for people in Black communities to abide by through no fault of their own.

Parolees are required to stay away from people with felony convictions. One third of Black men have felony convictions. Parolees could be ordered to stay away from certain people.

The report said that people on parole may be forced to choose between obeying the rules on one hand or risking a parole violation by spending time with relatives and friends who could be valuable sources of support, stability, housing, or employment connections.

The Washington Post has compiled one of the most thorough datasets available when it comes to fatal police shootings, and it has sparked debate over what it means when it comes to race in police killings.

More than half of the people killed by police in America in the last five years were white, but fatal police shootings of Black people were disproportionately high.

Black people were fatally shot at a rate of 6 per million per year, while 3,582 white people were killed at a rate of 2.4 per million.

Fatal police shootings are tracked in the database, but not fatal police encounters. George Floyd's death, in which a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes, was not included in the dataset.

Every fatal police shooting included in the database has a different set of circumstances that may or may not have justified a shooting. The database includes the name of the man who killed 49 people in a nightclub in the state of Florida.

Out of the 8,022 people killed by police in the last seven years, 6,616 were killed when a suspect had a gun or knife.

The database includes the fatal police shooting of Philando Castile, who was legally armed and obeyed the officer's commands during a traffic stop, but the presence of a weapon doesn't necessarily mean that the shooting was justified.

The aggregate data shows a similar story when it's narrowed down to fatal police shootings of people who aren't killers. The rate of white deaths per 10 million was 7.3 and the rate of black deaths per 10 million was 33.