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Study: White and black children biased toward lighter skin (Whites racist due to 'entitlements'?)
CNN U.S. ^
| May 14, 2010 4:24 p.m. EDT
| Jill Billante and Chuck Hadad
Posted on 05/15/2010 7:32:38 AM PDT by pillut48
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Spencer said the study points to major trends but is not the definitive word on children and race. It does lead her to conclude that even in 2010, "we are still living in a society where dark things are devalued and white things are valued."
There's a video where Anderson Cooper is interviewing various kids. None of them seem to be 'racist' to me, but quote MLK about judging people by their actions and not the color of their skin. The article admits there was barely any data (4 people in all working on a small sampling of kids?) taken to come to a firm conclusion, but seems to be adding more fuel to the fire by implying white children are racist because their parents don't have to teach them how to view other 'races', while the parents of black children are 'burdened' with teaching their children how to view other races? I'm wondering exactly who is the 'racist' group in this equation?
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posted on
05/15/2010 7:32:38 AM PDT
by
pillut48
To: pillut48
THe show last night was ridiculous.
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posted on
05/15/2010 7:36:12 AM PDT
by
GoCards
("We eat therefore we hunt...")
To: pillut48
I think, does suggest a level of entitlement. You can spend more time on spelling, math and reading, because you don’t have that extra task of basically reframing messages that children get from society.”
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Spencer is an idiot! Essentially he is saying white kids are better students because blacks, having to spend so much time un-teaching racism, don’t have as much time to spend on reading and spelling.
Unbelievable! Black kids are poor students because of whites.
To: pillut48
Black kids and “Hispanic” kids are encouraged to be proud of their ethnicity. White kids are castigated if they choose to associate with their group.
No wonder White kids grow up feeling picked on by bigoted Liberals, who are the real racists in our society.
To: pillut48
Lighter skin is also favored in Asian countries (e.g. Indonesia, Philippines). Many of the girls prefer a mixed-race baby. There is curiosity about others, not just regarding complexion, but also different hair and eye color. Just look at the disproportionate numbers of beauty queens’ complexions vs. the general populations. These are attributable to peoples’ natural preferences, not about “racism” as this “study” would imply.
To: pillut48
entitlements? no such thing.
How about a few thousand years of successful history and born with a can do attitude as opposed to the slavery the other races force their own to live in.
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posted on
05/15/2010 7:43:05 AM PDT
by
edcoil
(RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE.)
To: pillut48
Racial Awareness is a Location Specific Phenomenon
It depends on
Where You Are as to
How You Perceive It
Japanese, Chinese, Jamaican, Irish, Sudanese, Canadian, Brazilian
Perspectives would be Dramatically different
These Researchers would do Well to do a little Traveling...
To: pillut48
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posted on
05/15/2010 7:48:31 AM PDT
by
rogue yam
To: pillut48
You can spend more time on spelling, math and reading, because you don't have that extra task of basically reframing messages that children get from society. What a load of crap. In fact, we have to spend a considerable amount of time "reframe" all the B.S. put out by the mainstream media. Like this study.
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posted on
05/15/2010 7:49:28 AM PDT
by
B Knotts
(Impeach Obama)
To: pillut48
Sounds like her study was influenced by her bias.
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posted on
05/15/2010 7:50:08 AM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: pillut48
Wow, it’s almost like this study is trying to divide us... what a bunch of BS!
To: wintertime
Margaret Beale Spencer is a Marshall Field IV Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. Previously, she was Director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Health Achievement Neighborhood Growth and Ethnic Studies (CHANGES). Spencer's Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory (PVEST) serves as the foundation for her gendered research emphasis which addresses resiliency, identity, and competence formation processes for African-American, Hispanic, Asian-American, and Euro-American youth. Her continuing research and programming applications address youths' emerging capacity for healthy outcomes and constructive coping methods while developing under unacknowledged and stressful conditions. Her many publications include Adolescence: Development in a Global Era (with Swanson and Edwards, in press).
Contact Information
mbspencer at uchicago.edu
Source -------------------
(I'm not sure but I think "Euro-American youth" means white kids.)
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posted on
05/15/2010 7:53:37 AM PDT
by
pillut48
("Calling ILLEGAL aliens "immigrants" is like calling shoplifters 'customers'!"-UCFRoadWarrior ><>)
To: pillut48
There are in fact, occupations deemed ‘too white’ by inner city Black students. No amount of psychology, no matter how renowned, is going to change that - as long as you have Negro’s like the Reverends Sharpton and Jackson keeping ‘people of color’ on their racists’ plantations. This is the naked truth that the psychologists fail to address...
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posted on
05/15/2010 7:54:00 AM PDT
by
yoe
(The "N" word stands for NO...as in NO MORE VOTES FOR IRRESPONSIBLE CONGRESSMEN OR SENATORS.)
To: Minus_The_Bear
It was kind of funny watching Coop trying to get that white kid to say “I HATE BLACK PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY’RE BLACK!” but the kid wouldn’t fall for it, he actually had a great attitude toward people of different skin colors, in that IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT COLOR YOU ARE, IT’S HOW YOU BEHAVE THAT IS IMPORTANT. :-)
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posted on
05/15/2010 7:59:16 AM PDT
by
pillut48
("Calling ILLEGAL aliens "immigrants" is like calling shoplifters 'customers'!"-UCFRoadWarrior ><>)
To: pillut48
I am caucasian and I teach in a high school that's about 90% black and the black kids constantly refer to each other as either light-skinned or dark-skinned. I'll be asking about someone and they'll say “which one - dark-skinned Donte or light-skinned Donte?" And we have a few kids who are extremely dark and the other black kids will sometimes make fun of the fact that their skin is so dark. They are extremely race conscience, too. I always say, "what does THAT matter?" They usually have no answer.
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posted on
05/15/2010 8:17:43 AM PDT
by
FrdmLvr
( 0bama: Our first AINO president)
To: FrdmLvr
And we have a few kids who are extremely dark and the other black kids will sometimes make fun of the fact that their skin is so dark. They are extremely race conscience, too. I always say, "what does THAT matter?" They usually have no answer.
Even in Africa it matters. In Asia people will work the fields covered head to toe to avoid the sun and the resulting darkening of the skin.
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posted on
05/15/2010 8:26:01 AM PDT
by
aruanan
To: pillut48
I don’t know who’s more ridiculous-these morons, or society at large for nodding their heads and actually listening to the morons.
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posted on
05/15/2010 8:26:11 AM PDT
by
Mac from Cleveland
("See what you made me do?" Major Malik Hasan)
To: A_Former_Democrat; FrdmLvr
I just always figured black kids wanted to be “light black” in the same way that white girls tan to be as “dark white” as possible.
Maybe it comes from anchoring, and everybody wants to shift to the middle and away from extremes, or maybe girls are just being superficial girls (and some vain guys follow along as society becomes more and more effeminate).
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posted on
05/15/2010 8:26:50 AM PDT
by
BobbyT
To: pillut48
Spencer says this may be happening because “parents of color in particular had the extra burden of helping to function as an interpretative wedge for their children. Parents have to reframe what children experience ... and the fact that white children and families don’t have to engage in that level of parenting, I think, does suggest a level of entitlement. You can spend more time on spelling, math and reading, because you don’t have that extra task of basically reframing messages that children get from society.”
Translation from coded Leftist double-speak:
Because Black parents are doing such a crappy job of raising their children (with a 70% illegitimacy rate) they teach their children to blame the white kid for their problems instead of themselves.
To: pillut48
You can spend more time on spelling, math and reading, because you don't have that extra task of basically reframing messages that children get from society.Guess that you can be a renowned child psychologist and University of Chicago professor, and still be a fool...
Who wudda thunk it?
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posted on
05/15/2010 8:27:43 AM PDT
by
Zeppo
("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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