A poll conducted in 2007 by the Pew Research Center shows that 67 percent of black respondents believe that blacks still face discrimination when applying for a job. According to statistics issued by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, among the 75,768 charges it received in 2006, 27,328, or 35.9 percent of the total, were related to racial discrimination.
There is serious racial discrimination in the education sector of the United States, since public schools tend to take tougher discipline sanctions on black students, and the rate of black students disciplined is much higher than that of white students, according to the Chinese report.
It described racial discrimination in the US judicial system as "shocking". Blacks are seven times more likely than whites to be incarcerated, while blacks are 10 times as likely to be imprisoned for drug offences as whites, even though both groups use and sell drugs at the same rate.
According to statistics from the US Census Bureau, at year end 2006, 815 of every 100,000 blacks were behind the bars, and the rate was 283 per 100,000 for Hispanics and 170 for whites.
The report says that US justice system practices double standards on Blacks and Whites.
The report called American minorities "the main victims of hate and violent crimes and murders."
A FBI report indicated that there were 7,722 hate crimes in the country in 2006, up 8 percent. "Among them, 51.8 percent were motivated by racial bias. Hate crimes against Muslims increased 22percent. Hate crimes against Hispanics went up 10 percent," it said.
(Xinhua News Agency March 13, 2008)
