White Victim Mentality

The new study by Michael Norton (Harvard) and Samuel Sommers (Tufts) is filling up pages and pages of news”papers” and bringing up many ideas around affirmative action.

• Is Anti-White Bias a Problem? room for debate on The New York Times

• I’m afraid the best I have found is in Spanish: “Aún hacen falta cuotas raciales” at elpais.com

• Some things mentioned in the more extensive analysis (note: yes, some of them are scary):

• Grutter v. Bollinger (wiki summary)

• Ricci v. DeStefano (wiki summary)

• The Negro Family by Mr. Moynihan (a comment on it)

Gender Wage Gap

The Gender Wage Gap by Occupation published some time ago by the Institute for Womens' Policy Research. In summary, no matter what, in the most common occupations for women, the most common occupations for men, the occupations with the highest earnings, the occupations with the lowest earnings: men earn more than women except in the "Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food" category. But bias only exists in your imagination...

Sources of numbers

The US Census bureau

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)