[kevcol]

Geoffrey Wodtke

My research is in the areas of neighborhood effects and urban poverty, group conflict and racial attitudes, class structure and income inequality, and methods of causal inference in observational research. My dissertation examines the link between class structure, defined in terms of property and authority relations in production, and growing aggregate income inequality in America since the early 1980s. I’m also currently working on several projects dealing with the impact of neighborhood poverty on child development and the association between cognitive ability and racial attitudes among white Americans. My previous research on these topics has been published in American Sociological Review, Demography, and Social Psychology Quarterly.

So in short - if you oppose: Obamacare, Amnesty, Entitlement Reform, etc... you are a racist. Even if you are a lib who supports every tax loving program ever created by the govt you are still a racist but don't know it. In fact, if you are simply white you are a racist, period.

This article got picked up by a few other sources including MSN. Look at the photo used as an example of "lower echelon counterparts" - unreal...

[stinkerpot65]

Young black men: 3% of the population. 50% of the murders.

[Vendome]

It’s a setup for fail.

Kinda like telling someone it doesn’t matter if they stop drinking they are a dry drunk.

You can’t win and its a lose-lose.

No point in carrying the conversation further.

[joethedrummer]

Well, obama’s SUPPOSED to be the smartest guy in the world, ain’t he? And he’s half WHITE.

He’s not so hot at hiding HIS racism.

[driftless2]

This “all whites are racist” meme is nothing new. I was reading that stuff back in the late sixties and seventies by people in the various black power movements and black writers. They argued that it was some sort of original sin, but unlike original sin religious-wise, whites could never atone for it. Even if you were born one hundred, two hundred, or how many years after slavery ended, if you were white, you were a racist.

[GBA]

I don't tend to pay much attention to "race" until made to.

I figure that God likes variety and nature favors some adaptations over others. I hate sunburns and being practical is as racist as I can get.

I find that the people who make me pay attention to "race" are usually very racist themselves and behave in ways that are detrimental to me looking favorably at them or their "race".

That sort of focus is a bit too satanic in thinking for my taste and travel plans.

[popdonnelly]

According to Democrats, the “smarter whites” are all Democrats.

[RC one]

They once asked that we judge men and women by the content of their character and so we are. Now they are asking us to ignore the content of men and women’s character and judge them by the color of their skin.

[Jabba the Nutt]

You start with the preise, that being white grants privilege and it all works out from there.

Stoopid.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

In truth, everyone is racist, yet some can be “objectively” racist, based on information that *quantitatively* confirms their suppositions. Yes, a supposition is based on incomplete information, but that does not mean that it is incorrect.

For example, China officially has 56 ethnic groups. Of these, Han Chinese account for 91.59% of the overall Chinese population. So if you assume that a “Chinese” person is ethnically Han, 9 times out of 10 you will be correct, assuming that the Han and China’s other ethnic groups have proportionately migrated to where you are.

But talking about Chinese people is avoiding the issue, which is almost exclusively about slave-descended black Americans. I have to specify s-d black Americans, because they are culturally totally different from recent immigrant black Americans, though they are lumped together statistically.

s-d black Americans are easily the target of quantitative supposition racism, precisely because they voluntarily racially segregate themselves in many ways. For example, 98% voting for Obama.

It is not racist at all to note that “98% of black American voters voted for Obama.” Clearly that reflects racism on their part.

Likewise, according to FBI statistics, 95% of black homicides are perpetrated by other black people. And that their homicide rate per capita is enormous compared to other racial groups. Neither of those statements is racist, but from them can be supposed that black Americans are far more disposed to murderous violence than are those of other ethnic groups.

In addition, something like 1 in 4 black men are either incarcerated, on probation or parole, and that does not include ex-convicts. Nor is arrest and conviction at these levels inherently racist, because judges and juries sentence black men to prison at about the same rate no matter what race they are.

Arguments that there is something wrong with the justice system because it incarcerates so many are nonsense. There is generally equal justice before the law. What is lacking is equal obedience to the law.

No, black men do not get a pass from the social contract because they do not want to obey the law.

But from this it can be supposed, with objective racism, that black men are far more inclined to commit criminal acts. And while the majority don’t, it is not unfair that they are burdened by those who do; and by those who don’t know them, but have to suppose the possibility, for their own safety.

[ModelBreaker]

Mr. Wodtke will, of course, decline tenure as a sociology PhD as tenure would preserve his privileged position. In fact, he ought to decline his PhD, when it is awarded. Being a doctor is so, well, privileged. Perhaps he should decline grants from the government and NGO’s as much of that money comes from less-than-wealthy people.

He has so much opportunity to do good.

[Let's Roll]

It’s gonna be racial this and racial that from now on ... because they don’t HAVE ANYTHING else to keep the peeps stirred up about that ensures they keep their cushy, undemanding jobs that they weren’t qualified for in the first place.

[Let's Roll]

It’s gonna be racial this and racial that from now on ... because they don’t HAVE ANYTHING else to keep the peeps stirred up about that ensures they keep their cushy, undemanding jobs that they weren’t qualified for in the first place.

[Ohioan]

It is pathetic that this drivel would appear in a publication called "Medical Daily." It is ridiculous that any one would apologize for defending the right of people to pick their own associates, or oppose being forced into reengineered neighborhoods, by those seeking to prove a fantasy.

Race relations in America have been severely damaged by an entirely false premise that people are interchangeable; that we are all only so much biological putty to be remolded by our overseers in public office.

What the Left proposes is in the interests of no race; no family; no individual, but demagogues & scoundrels. It has already proven to be a sure formula for undermining the social order of all of us, regardless of race, creed or color.

See Compassion Or Compulsion?

William Flax

[potlatch]

I’ve never been racist in my life, and am still not - but Obama has stirred up the “13%” of our population who only seem to think in terms of their body color. Like Sharpton and Jackson, everything is based on body color.