Posted on 11/26/2014 6:00:08 PM PST by mdittmar
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 the Ferguson grand jury's decision was announced,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.
It's what one Duke University sociologist calls "racism without racists." Eduardo Bonilla-Silva,who's written a book by that title,says it's a new way of maintaining white domination in places like Ferguson.
"The main problem nowadays is not the folks with the hoods,but the folks dressed in suits," says Bonilla-Silva.
"The more we assume that the problem of racism is limited to the Klan,the birthers,the tea party or to the Republican Party,the less we understand that racial domination is a collective process and we are all in this game."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
I’m going to need taller boots...
But no one ever talks about the racism of academia -- the racist liberal mindset that skin color always matters in every social interaction.
It’s not racism. It’s acting on the general background of information. As a group they do commit more crime so if you forget the details of the picture you go with your general understanding. Do the same test with the woman holding the knife and I bet they pick the man if they are not sure.
I guess Officer Wilson just imagined Michael Brown refusing to move to the sidewalk, calling Wilson a pussy, trying to take his gun, punching him, and then charging him after being ordered to stop. And that store clerk just imagined Michael Brown shoving him and stealing a box of cigars.
Was this the Communist News Network reporter who stopped some rocks with his head last night?
Interviewed by another reporter, CNN’s John Blake stated, “I do not avoid rocks. Rocks sense the power in my complete lack of racism. In fact, no one I know, myself especially, has a racist bone in his body.”
“But rocks and other inanimate objects seek my life essence. I do not avoid rocks, but I deny them my essence.”
Then there’s Jessie Jackson who doesn’t like to meet black men on the street after dark.........
“They talk more about the racism uncovered in the knife fight photos....”
But wait, you just said:
“...second photo, most people — black and white — incorrectly said the black man had the knife.”
So it isn’t racism dumbasses. Now, SHUT UP!
Liberals accuse every one not agreeing with them of racism.
They exploit the Race Card TM to the hilt.
They cannot live without stoking paranoia and racial resentment everywhere.
After all, they are are folks who gave us hope & change.
I’m gettin’ a boat.
Don’t even mention Chris Rock...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3PJF0YE-x4
In a "classic study on race", FreeReign has noticed that most black people, despite the plain evidence to the contrary, think that the white cop did it to the black guy.
...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.
BS both "sides" drew the same conclusion in the experiment.
The racism only comes into play when someone with white skin does it.
more psychobabble of unscientific proportions
“racism without racists.” ......
Eduardo, you’re the perfect example of that.
Fisherman call them waders.
While you’re at the sporting goods store you might want to get a life preserver and maybe a snorkel.
I thought Obama eliminated it.
The looters and arsonists in Ferguson were unimpressed.
Racism without racist is like a day without sunshine.
And how many of these studies get yanked from journals if they are ever published for complete bs fabricated studies without controls?
All of them
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