Dr. R. L'Heureux Lewis-McCoy
Posted on 06/19/2015 4:43:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A shooting at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, on Wednesday has shaken the country, leaving many reflecting on the state of race relations in the United States.
Nine people, including Rev. Clementa Pinckney, the church's pastor and a South Carolina state senator, were shot to death by accused gunman Dylann Storm Roof at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Authorities have called the shooting a hate crime.
But how does one explain such a crime from a scientific perspective? What could lead someone to commit a racially motivated hate crime? What is racism -- and how can we as a society overcome it?
HuffPost Science posed those questions and others on Thursday to Dr. R. L'Heureux Lewis-McCoy, an associate professor of sociology at The City College of New York and author of the book Inequality in the Promised Land.
From a sociology perspective, how would you define racism?
I would define racism as a system of social advantages and disadvantages doled out based upon group membership, particularly what we have socially defined as races. Among sociologists, we also talk about a newer form of racism known as "colorblind racism" (Eduardo Bonilla-Silva pioneered this work) that emerged after the 1960s, where the outward expression of racial animus and explicit discriminatory laws have been silenced or removed, but unfair racial advantages or disadvantages are still doled out, despite few people admitting to being devout racists....
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Dr. R. L'Heureux Lewis-McCoy
I liked it a whole lot better when we were talking about Rachel Dolezal.
a zillion murders of blacks AND whites by by blacks, untold rapes of whites and blacks by blacks, dealing narcotics, rioting, planning terrorist attacks and on and on.
But one white on black shooting will get the media whores running 24/7 about how racist and terrible America is.
I’m just glad it’s not close to the election as most Americans will forget in two weeks and watch some awful reality series.
The only national question is why these drugs are still on the market.
He was wacked out and bent on evil? That’s why the crime?
I don;t bother clicking on libtard sites and avoid giving them a clickpoint as I know what the summary is anyways: whitey is racist.
Stating the obvious.
The conservatives in this tragedy were the ones killed.
Sociology is not science in the physical sense, but is informed by a lot of quasi-statistical material which can easily be modified by the practitioner’s preconceived notions, political or otherwise.
Boy they are really all crawling out from under the rocks, aren’t they.
Headline should read:
Racist shooting brings true racist out all over the country.
I’d rather watch women’s soccer than to read this.
Obviously designed to keep blacks on the plantation, with folks like Dr. R. L'Heureux Lewis-McCoy serving as overseers.
What drugs, dextromethorphan or mescaline or whatever else he was abusing?
I love the South, but if the folks there would have just picked their own damn cotton the USA would be much different today...
They used the words ‘scientific perspective’ and ‘associate professor of sociology’ in the same article.
Science is math, chemistry, physics and engineering. Sociology is collectivist philosophy.
they let a lot slide don’t they in their reporting......99.999% of people don’t even know about the Knoxville murders....most don’t know about the DC murders where they tortured the little boy.
“colorblind racism”
That’s a seriously funny example of shrewd dumbness that causes a silent scream!
They are bound and determined to make this all about race and guns when it’s really about crime and punishment.
Yep, this wasn’t about racism. It was about some whacked out, drug infested little pissant who wanted to make a name for himself.
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