3/85Percentage of all coronary-artery bypasses in the United States that are performed on whites: 97
6/85Percentage of black high-school graduates under 25 who are unemployed: 26.8
Percentage of white high-school dropouts under 25 who are unemployed: 26.2
6/85Amount South Africa spends to educate the average white student each year (in rand): 1,385
12/86Rank of drugs among the most pressing city problems cited by Washington, D.C., blacks: 1
Rank of traffic among the problems cited by Washington, D.C., whites: 1
2/86Percentage of the babies born to unmarried white women under 25 that are given up for adoption: 8
3/86Estimated number of white South Africans who emigrate each month: 3,000
4/86Percentage of white Americans who say peacetime military service is a “very important obligation”: 31
4/86Percentage of Republicans in 1955 who were white Southerners: 10
11/88Tons of jelly beans the White House has purchased from the Goelitz Candy Company since 1981: 12
12/88Chances that a white American man is self-employed: 1 in 7
Chances that a foreign-born Korean-American man is: 1 in 4
3/88Percentage of the top sixty Republican presidential campaign aides who are black or Hispanic: 0
6/88Number of presidential elections since 1964 in which the Democratic candidate won a majority of the white vote: 0
6/88Average increase in an NBA team’s season attendance when a black player is replaced by a comparable white: 10,000
1/89Number of the 83 Appeals Court judges appointed by Ronald Reagan who are white men: 75
11/89Percentage decrease, since 1979, in the number of white males applying to U.S. medical schools: 47
4/90Percentage of all billboards in white neighborhoods in Baltimore that advertise alcohol and tobacco: 20
5/91Number of the solar panels installed on the White House roof by President Carter that are still there: 0
10/92Number of the five U.S. Olympic basketball team members pictured on Kellogg’s cereal boxes who are white: 3
12/92Average fine levied last year on U.S. companies convicted of illegal pollution in white communities: $333,566
Average fine levied on companies convicted of illegal pollution in minority communities: $55,318
5/92Chances that a white American earning less than $28,000 per year will be denied a mortgage: 1 in 4.3
Chances that a black American earning more than $42,000 per year will be denied a mortgage: 1 in 4.7
9/92Number of the 10 TV shows watched most often by blacks that are among the 10 watched most often by whites: 0
4/93Average percentage of bank deposits in a minority community that are reinvested in the neighborhood: 4
8/93Chances that an adult resident of Los Angeles is white: 1 in 3
Chances that a voter in Los Angeles’s June mayoral election was white: 2 in 3
12/94Chances that a black suspect pictured on a network TV evening news program will be shown in police custody: 1 in 3
12/94Factor by which the mortality rate of homeless urban non-white Americans exceeds that of housed non-whites: 2
Factor by which the mortality rate of homeless urban white Americans exceeds that of housed whites: 5
2/94Chances that a white teenager arrested on drug charges will be transferred to an adult court: 1 in 70
7/94Percentage of African-Americans who say that whites are “insensitive to other people”: 76
Percentage who say that Asian-Americans are “unscrupulously crafty and devious in business”: 42
Chances that an American sentenced for crack-related offenses is white: 1 in 25
10/95Number of states in which a black college graduate’s average income is at least 90 percent of a white college graduate’s: 4
11/95Chances that a hard-core rap album sold in the U.S. last year was purchased by a white person: 3 in 4
4/95Average age of the 3 white professional athletes with the largest incomes in the United States last year: 51
Average age of the 3 black professional athletes with the largest incomes: 27
6/95Number of the 272 U.S. prisoners executed since 1976 who were white men convicted of killing a black man: 1
6/95Percentage of white Americans who believe their race hinders their ability to achieve the American dream: 11
7/95Percentage change since 1970 in the number of American children born to one white and one non-white parent: +253
12/96Chance that an American executed since the 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty was a white who killed a black: 1 in 100
5/96Average percentage by which white Americans overestimate the Latino, Asian-, and African-American populations: 100
Average percentage by which members of these groups overestimate their own populations: 100
9/96Percentage of white NFL head coaches whose teams have made the playoffs in the last seven seasons: 46
11/97Percentage of white Americans who say that they would vote for Colin Powell over Al Gore for president: 53
11/98Chances that a 1996 campaign contribution of over $200 came from a white man earning at least $100,000 a year: 2 in 3
Chances that a white male donor, making over $100,000 a year, and who gave over $200 to a 1996 campaign “personally knows” a member of Congress: 3 in 4
6/98Percentage of African-Americans who wish Bill Clinton could run for a third term: 74
11/99Ratio of the average annual amount a white American spends on lottery tickets to what a black American spends: 1:5
5/99Number of times that a white man has been executed for killing a black man in Texas since 1860: 0
9/99Percentage of white Pennsylvania men denied gun ownership between 1778 and 1789 for refusing a state loyalty oath: 40
4/00Number of U.S. Census respondents in 1990 who identified their race as “other”: 9,804,847
9/01Percentage of African-American children in the South attending majority-white schools in 1976 and 1996, respectively: 38, 35
8/02Average amount by which the price a black American pays for a new car exceeds that paid by a white for the same model: $420
1/03Rank of Michael Moore’s Stupid White Men among the New York Times’s top “business” bestsellers in September: 1
2/03Percentage of African Americans who have dated at least one white American: 43
Percentage of white Americans who have dated at least one African American: 17
4/04Factor by which Florida’s white defendants are more likely than blacks to get a plea bargain blocking felony conviction: 1.5
5/05Percentage change since 1920 in the number of white and black U.S. farmers, respectively: -62, -97
8/05Number of New Orleans bars visited this spring by an undercover team investigating racial discrimination: 40
9/05Average percentage of students in New York State’s majority-white school districts who graduate in four years: 79
9/06Average income of an African American today, expressed as a percentage of the average income of a white American: 74
Average income of an American child of Mexican immigrants, expressed in the same terms: 71
11/07Portion of whites and African Americans, respectively, who say that immigrants take American jobs: 1/4, 1/3