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LeftyMom

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4. A study a while back found that white people routinely overestimate black kids' ages by 4-6 yrs

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Dec 1, 2015, 08:45 PM

Dec 2015

starting from around age eight.

Then, of course, they judge the kids badly for behaving in ways that are entirely appropriate to their actual ages. This is a particularly egregious example, but it's a systemic problem that effects the ways black kids are treated in the educational system as well as by police.

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Officer who killed Tamir Rice says he believed 12-year-old was in fact 18 [View all] Eugene Dec 2015 OP

They gave no time to show his hands Politicalboi Dec 2015 #1

They didn't even have the time to even tell him to put his hands up. marble falls Dec 2015 #2

I guess the idiot is forgetting it is all on video camera. Rex Dec 2015 #5

I see, so that makes it all right. Rex Dec 2015 #3

A study a while back found that white people routinely overestimate black kids' ages by 4-6 yrs LeftyMom Dec 2015 #4

heck, even 3 yos aren't allowed to be seen as kids at all MisterP Dec 2015 #6