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In reply to the discussion: Today's example of how much America hates black people… [View all]MrScorpio
(73,772 posts)51. Check this out...
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/26/us/ferguson-racism-or-racial-bias/index.html
(CNN)In a classic study on race, psychologists staged an experiment with two photographs that produced a surprising result.
They showed people a photograph of two white men fighting, one unarmed and another holding a knife. Then they showed another photograph, this one of a white man with a knife fighting an unarmed African-American man.
When they asked people to identify the man who was armed in the first picture, most people picked the right one. Yet when they were asked the same question about the second photo, most people -- black and white -- incorrectly said the black man had the knife.
Even before it was announced that a grand jury had decided not to indict a white police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black teen in Ferguson, Missouri, leaders were calling once again for a "national conversation on race."
But here's why such conversations rarely go anywhere: Whites and racial minorities speak a different language when they talk about racism, scholars and psychologists say.
The knife fight experiment hints at the language gap. Some whites confine racism to intentional displays of racial hostility. It's the Ku Klux Klan, racial slurs in public, something "bad" that people do.
But for many racial minorities, that type of racism doesn't matter as much anymore, some scholars say. They talk more about the racism uncovered in the knife fight photos -- it doesn't wear a hood, but it causes unsuspecting people to see the world through a racially biased lens.
(CNN)In a classic study on race, psychologists staged an experiment with two photographs that produced a surprising result.
They showed people a photograph of two white men fighting, one unarmed and another holding a knife. Then they showed another photograph, this one of a white man with a knife fighting an unarmed African-American man.
When they asked people to identify the man who was armed in the first picture, most people picked the right one. Yet when they were asked the same question about the second photo, most people -- black and white -- incorrectly said the black man had the knife.
Even before it was announced that a grand jury had decided not to indict a white police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black teen in Ferguson, Missouri, leaders were calling once again for a "national conversation on race."
But here's why such conversations rarely go anywhere: Whites and racial minorities speak a different language when they talk about racism, scholars and psychologists say.
The knife fight experiment hints at the language gap. Some whites confine racism to intentional displays of racial hostility. It's the Ku Klux Klan, racial slurs in public, something "bad" that people do.
But for many racial minorities, that type of racism doesn't matter as much anymore, some scholars say. They talk more about the racism uncovered in the knife fight photos -- it doesn't wear a hood, but it causes unsuspecting people to see the world through a racially biased lens.
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The majority of white people DID NOT vote for Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. in 2008 or in 2012.
Liberal_Stalwart71
Jul 2015
#64
that. is. so. fucked. up. i. sometimes. thought. purple. onion. wedge. spaniel.
spanone
Jul 2015
#15
I've always maintained that LEOs are poorly trained, therefore they resort to violence
Maedhros
Jul 2015
#30
I would send that to one of the watchdog agencies like the Southern Law Poverty Center or
Cleita
Jul 2015
#31
The Scary Blackman is one of the last great canards the GOP has in their hat of tricks.
Rex
Jul 2015
#33
Well, if one formed the impression that this company only made targets with black makes holding guns
aikoaiko
Jul 2015
#57
Another view of the same diverse - including white - targets from another source
gollygee
Jul 2015
#62
That you feel the need to use a semantics approach is frustrating for me and makes your
Jefferson23
Jul 2015
#108
but of course the picture of a young, black man with a gun is not racist at all....
Raster
Jul 2015
#80
If it was meant to be a racist target, they would have shown him holding his gun sideways
Reter
Jul 2015
#87
Holy shit, this place needs to be boycotted and shamed. K&R for visibility. n/t
Jefferson23
Jul 2015
#106
Should have told him that if he had a KKK hood that would be an OK target too...
cascadiance
Jul 2015
#109
Just reading this FB post (about Alabama mayor) made my Blood pressure shoot up again.
flying_wahini
Jul 2015
#115