Racism: From Ferguson To The NBA To You

Forbes ^ | September 21, 2014 | Todd Essig

[2ndDivisionVet]

Race has been in the news recently, as it should be more than it is. First the tragedy in Ferguson, Missouri captured everyone’s attention, and is still making news. Then a starkly racist email sent by Atlanta Hawks co-owner Bruce Levenson brought back the topic of race relations in the NBA where the owners are mostly white and the players black. And then this week psychologist Jennifer L. Eberhardt won a MacArthur “genius” award for her groundbreaking work on the powerful influence out-of-awareness racial attitudes have in the criminal justice system. Because her research can help us understand troubling news about race—as well as many other things I might add—now seems a good time to talk specifically about race and unconscious mental processes.

Lots of research documents that understanding race includes understanding how race operates in our minds out of awareness. Some call this racism without racists. Widely reported examples include significant racial bias when otherwise well-intentioned people evaluate job applications. White applicants are selected significantly more frequently than black applicants when the applications are otherwise identical. Or consider how a white person in a crowd will summon help in an emergency, such as someone fainting, 75% of the time when the victim is white but less than 40% when the victim is black. Unconscious racial bias will even lead otherwise progressive, inclusive physicians to more frequently recommend life-saving blood-clot dissolving therapies for white cardiac patients than black cardiac patients....

[2ndDivisionVet]

Reality or fiction?

[Secret Agent Man]

when everything’s racist, then nothing is racist.

[Ramonne]

When you are robbed by two black men it creates a bias , not of your own choosing, but bias none the less. I have known black men I would trust with my life, even the lives of my children, but that can’t fix the fear created by the robbery.

[Sparklite]

I still have, and will always have, lead fragments showing up on x-rays of myself left over from the bullet wound I suffered at the hands of a black. Stereotypes are based on repeated observations and are accurate more often then not. It’s the way to bet. Racist? Yeah. So what?

[cherry]

I refuse any of this....minorities are actually given more jobs then they are qualified for, are given a pass in schools, get more frequent college scholarships, and in everything EXCEPT sports everything has to be "diverse" to the detriment of any fire dept, or police dept, etc....

meanwhile, we pale faces keep working, keep paying for everything while certain groups can just be malingerers and slackers and takers...

[mrsmel]

Same here. Call me racist, I don’t care anymore. I have just as much right to be concerned about “my people”, my fellow whites, as other races have to be concerned with their own “tribe”, and since my “tribe” foots most of the bill, even more right.

[Ultima]

The term “racism” was invented by communists. Leon Trotsky was one of the first to use it. When whites engage in favoritism toward other whites (and therefore discrimination against non-whites), it’s called “racism”. When other groups engage in favoritism, it’s called “ethnic solidarity”. When you buy into these word games, it’s called being a useful idiot.

[FreedomPoster]

Todd Essig goes on my “to be ignored” list, and that’s considerably toned down from what I had written.

The (Grand) Jury on Ferguson is still out, and the facts will likely show Miller acted properly. Those calling for “justice” seem to be out for a lynching of Miller and are too dim to see the irony.

Regarding Levenson, yeah, it’s terrible for a businessman to want to appeal to all demographics, and the reality of who is showing up at games is that whites aren’t. It’s smart to want to figure out why and how to get them to come.

I quit reading beyond that point due to the “THESE EVENTS ARE RACIST!” tone from this author.

[Altura Ct.]

Just another self loathing arsehole. Like Holder he has no intension of looking at race but from one perspective. F him and the horse he rode in on.

[Sparklite]

Yup. When we’re in the minority, which won’t be long from now, do you think there’ll be a White Pride Month? Me neither.

[mrsmel]

They don't just seem to be calling for a lynching, they flat-out are calling for it. At a recent town hall meeting in Ferguson, the "black community" called for Wilson to be charged and convicted, or, in their words, "all hell will break loose". Not just charged, mind you, charged and convicted.

I watched "Mrs Miniver" (a movie about WWII touching the lives of ordinary people in a small English village) yesterday, and the local aristocrat, an old lady, was presiding over a flower show. She mentioned "the community" in conjunction with the community efforts to grow beautiful flowers. When I heard the word, it came into my mind that now, that word is mostly used in conjunction with blacks, and always when they're demanding yet something else from whites, whether more gibs-me-dat, or the lynching of some white person who defended themselves against some fine upstanding thug from their "community". I never hear it used as in "the black community today raised 20,000 for cancer" or anything productive.

[mrsmel]

True. We're already the global minority, and still footing the large majority of the bill for the rest of the world. And only majority, historically white nations are expected to erase their borders and allow themselves to be genocided out of existence, (genocide, according to the UN's own guidelines as to what constitutes genocide). Only majority-white communities are targeted by HUD, etc for "diversity"-when whites move into majority black communities, even though in almost all cases they bring improvement, it's called "gentrification" and considered a bad thing.

And one that really gets me-if blacks became a majority in any area within even the last 30 years, it's called a "historically" black community, even though whites were the majority just 30 years or so ago, and broke ground and and built the town/city/whatever the area is.