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Disparate Impact · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for American mamas. Dear mamas, have you heard of
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  disparate impact theory and do you think it's correct? Well, let's ask our
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  American mamas Amasi and joining us now our American mamas Terry Edeville and Kimberly Burlson.
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  So disparate impact theory. The idea behind this is that if you look
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  at how something turns out, you can tell whether it was racist or not.
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  So if you just look at the number of college graduates in America,
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  if that number doesn't perfectly match all of the demographic distribution of America, like
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  you have fifty one percent women graduates and forty nine percent men graduates, and
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  you don't have thirteen percent African American grad If you don't, if it doesn't
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  match up with demographics one hundred percent perfectly, it proves there's either racism or
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  sexism involved. So you look at the output out the impact of something,
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  and if there's a different impact based on race, it is obviously institutional racism.
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  That's the idea behind the Fuyad idea. It's disgusting. I know we've
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  talked about this before, but I will say since then, this has been
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  a topic I've heard this time and time again. What's interesting are the Black
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  Americans here standing up saying, So you're saying that you have to lower the
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  standards in order for us to get a job or to pass a test,
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  right, that's what they're saying. Because the way to solve disparate impact is
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  through a quota system or through having different criteria for So it's the whole thing
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  that colleges have been doing that since Black Americans weren't making as high of a
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  number on SAT or ACT scores. We're going to get rid of that and
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  we're just going to go with the quota system of getting people into college,
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  which is unconstitutional. Supreme Court said so last year. Yes, well,
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  even the MCAT. The MCAT is what they take in order to get into
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  medical school, like they are doing away with it for black students where they
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  don't have to even take it to be able to get in. And again,
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  I think about Candace Owens. She's so against she feels like this is
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  a former racism. She feels like this is a slap in the face to
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  her culture, and they don't have to lower She's like, we can do
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  this. So you have people who are comparing. They're saying, okay,
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  so let's say that we're on an airplane and you know that the pilot in
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  the cockpit is a DEI higher, Like this is not somebody who made the
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  highest on the test, but he's you know, let's say, a black
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  gay man. He got that job. So they're saying, I want whoever
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  I had the most hours, flew the best. I want that's who we
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  want in charge of surgeries of our flights of well, actually anything in a
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  leadership role. I want the best person for the job. If that's a
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  woman, if that's a man, white, black, Indian Asian, I
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  don't care, just the best person for the job. I feel like that
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  what this is doing is actually causing more division. And this started i'm sorry
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  under Obama and to hear more Black Americans come out and say that, like,
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  I don't know why that gives me such hope for the future, because
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  it has to be them to stand up for them. Well, it's more
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  than division. This is dangerous. This is a very dangerous game. We're
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  talking about people's lives. You know, I used to, I mean all
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  of us, when you saw an MD behind somebody's name, you just believed
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  they had all the answers, they knew what they were talking about, They've
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  studied, earned It's not that way anymore because of this, because of what's
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  happened, we have to be very careful, we have to be very diligent
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  in who who we seek to help us in whatever circumstance because of this.
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  So it's become a very dangerous game they're playing. Well, the other thing
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  is that it negates individuality, and what I mean by that is individuals are
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  responsible for their own choices. Disparate impact completely ignores individual choices in whatever has
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  happening. So if one person, here's a great example, in Asian culture
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  in America, there is a tendency to value education more than in any other
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  racial subgroup in America. So you have students who are Asian who actually spend
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  a lot more time studying than I ever did, and they will have higher
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  grades as a result. Right, Well, there's no question that. So
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  by saying disparate impact, we've got too many Asians. That takes away the
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  choices that I made to screw around playing video games and the choices they made
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  to buckle down and do the actual work correctly. Lowering standards helps nobody,
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  and it's kind of shames and pushes down those, like you've said, who
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  have worked so hard. You have people who I think we were talking about
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  this with our other sister, lindsay, where you have these kids who were
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  accepted into the STEM program right Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, yep,
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  And you got kids in the regular program program. They both made four
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  oh's. But because they're in they were accepted in. This a lot of
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  more teachers kids into the so yes, they get a better shot at going
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  to the schools they want to go to and getting the jobs they want to
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  get. And so you're looking at all of this and you're like, why
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  can't we go back to the day where everybody had the same standard. You
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  had to reach this. This is your potential, and this is what you
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  if you wanted to get a job, you had to all reach the same
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  pinnacle. It wasn't like, okay, well this group you have to you
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  have to make it thirty six. Well, now you're this group and you
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  have this skin color, so you only have to reach this one. That's
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  not fair to anybody, especially those who are saying, wait a minute,
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  you're lowering the standards for so you're saying my culture's too dumb to make it
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  to the top. It also assumes that the number one determining factor in anything
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  is skin color, when more likely you're ignoring what is most likely the number
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  one determining factor in so many demographic things in the country, and that is
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  the presence of a two parent family. Oh. If you like descar American
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  and click on the ask the Mama's button. Terry Nuteville Cakim, really listen.
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  Thank you so much. Thank you,