White People Working for Positive Systemic Change — Paradoxes

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My editor (me) believes that perhaps this writing is about “conundrums”, rather than “paradoxes”. He also believes that if this is critically important to you, you might want to stop now — and not continue reading.

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2020 U.S. Presidential Election

White People are 57.8% of the U.S. population and 71% of the eligible voters voted, so — multiplied together one gets: .41

Black People are 14.1% of the U.S. population and 63% of the eligible voters voted, so multiplied together one gets: .09

Though there are 4.1 (57.8 / 14.1) times as many white as Black People, their 2020 voting totals were 4.6 (.41 / .09) times as many white as Black People who voted, due to the higher percentage of whites to Blacks who voted.

40% of white men voted for Biden

57% of white men voted for Trump

48.9% of the population is male

4.6 (white voters vs. Black voters) x 40% (male) x 48.9% (% of population male) = .90

95% (Black women voted for Biden) x 51.1% (% of population female) = .49

.90 / .49 = 1.96 — ratio of votes between white men and Black Women