Posted on 02/13/2015 11:06:43 AM PST by i88schwartz
FBI Director James Comey addresses the "hard truths" of racism in a speech at Georgetown University on Thursday:
JAMES COMEY, FBI DIRECTOR: One reason we cannot forget our law enforcement legacy is that the people we serve and protect cannot forget it, either. So we must talk about our history. It is a hard truth that lives on.
A second hard truth: Much research points to the widespread existence of unconscious bias. Many people in our white-majority culture have unconscious racial biases and react differently to a white face than a black face. In fact, we all, white and black, carry various biases around with us. I am reminded of the song from the Broadway hit, Avenue Q: “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist.” Part of it goes like this:
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Unconscious bias or survival instinct?
He says it like it’s a bad thing. Biases and stereotypes exist for a reason. You bet I cross the street if I see a band of skittle wielding hoodie wearing ‘youths’ coming up ahead of me. I don’t feel the least bit threatened when I see a turbin wearing Sikh walking down the street.
Speak for yourself James.
You’re incapable of knowing men’s hearts.
“Comey the Homey”
In a great part survival instinct. Our ancestors depended on association with their clans for protection against those who were different from them.
Sounds like Avenue Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RovF1zsDoeM)
That’s not racism, though. It’s racism if you cross the street when anyone of a certain race comes into view.
” It’s racism if you cross the street when anyone of a certain race comes into view.”
No it isn’t. It depends entirely on where you are.
As long as we’re on the moral relativity kick, why not just say that we’re all just a little bit terrorist, too, and let ISIS continue for the next 1000 years or so?
Moral relativism: Brought to you by liberal democrats.
“Everyone’s guilty of SOMETHING.”
Law enforcement rationale for not caring if the guy you’re busting is guilty of what you are charging him with.
What exactly is his point? Should we ignore and excuse black pathologies?
Overall, Caucasians are the LEAST racist. WHO created the country where ALL races are welcome and treated equally under the law? Caucasians did!
In our country’s recent history we’ve celebrated diversity in our population as if it were a good thing. However, one look at world history will show you that no country with a diverse population of different races, languages, and religion has long survived.
Countries don’t naturally form with a diverse population, and when in the past they’ve occurred it’s usually been as a result of armed conquest. These unnaturally formed countries have either melded together into a single population made up of one mixed race with one language and one religion or they’ve come apart, and they’ve usually come apart with extreme violence. The longer these diverse populations are forced to coexist with one another without mixing and becoming one, the more the hatred grows among them and the more violently they break apart, but break apart they will, or genocide will settle the issue once and for all.
Why is this and why can’t we all just get along? The truth of the matter is that we (the human race) just aren’t as civilized as we would like to think we are. Our species, Homo-sapiens-sapiens, isn’t that long “out of the trees” and the veneer of civilization is very thin, to non-existent, upon us all. We’re all carrying the genes that got us here and some of those genes carry a very basic survival instinct that has allowed us to survive thus far.
This most basic of all survival instincts is self preservation and it’s the one that warns us to be very wary of those who are different than us, our family, and our tribe. Those who possessed this survival instinct survived and reproduced, and those who had no fear/distrust of strangers didn’t survive. Over the years, this survival instinct has been referred to as tribalism, nationalism, ethnocentrism, racism, and various other isms, but it’s an inborn instinct carried in our genes whether we like it or not.
Had to correct what they left out.
Psychology 101
Many people that hate something about themselves ASSUME and EXCUSE it by saying everyone else thinks this way.
That’s not true because everyone has different experiences in life. We are not of the exact same mold like manufactured out of an assembly plant when it comes to experience. That’s Psychology 101
Jame Comey unwisely just admitted to anyone that knows this that he is a little racist.
What a dumb@ss given his title!
It's called Discrimination.
All people and even all animals learn to discriminate in order to survive. They need to be able to tell the difference between what is safe and what is not. Otherwise they would not survive. It's based on instinct and experience. If you touch fire and it burns your hand, next time you will be more careful.
Similarly we tend to be more trusting with people we know and more careful with people that are unfamiliar. We tend to trust people who look like us. We are unsure of people who do not look like us.
Racism is a hostility toward another race. There is not very much of that around.
Am I racist; or, am I in love?
“There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery - then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.” Jackson, Jesse - Blacks, Jews, Liberals, and Crime, Ed Koch, NR, May 16, 1994, p.34
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