Posted on 12/25/2014 8:26:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Baltimore — More than 500 protesters marched from Empowerment Temple Church on Primrose Avenue north on Reisterstown Road to Reisterstown Road Plaza for "Black Lives Matter Sunday." On Reisterstown Road, near the entrance to the shopping center, the protesters formed a circle and many laid down to stage a die-in to show solidarity with Michael Brown.
CHICAGO — Everyone understands that words matter. Observers of my writing know that I hopscotch my way through racial and ethnic labels quite a bit, using the conventions of my source materials whenever possible so as to not tinge my point with an easily misperceived term.
But labels can be landmines. They can be perfectly acceptable to some in a particular group and at the same time deeply insult others. As it turns out, which racial label is used in communicating neutral information can also have a wide-ranging impact on those who are taking in descriptive information about a group or a person.
In a recent study — “A rose by any other name?: The consequences of subtyping ‘African-Americans’ from ‘Blacks’” — researchers Erika Hall, Katherine Phillips and Sarah Townsend found that these two racial labels have a disparate impact on how minority social groups are perceived by whites.
The researchers conducted four distinct studies in the realms of employment, media and criminal justice to determine the perceptions of the two labels in different contexts.
The data they collected point to whites believing that the label “Black” evokes a mental representation of a person with lower socioeconomic status, education, positivity, competence and warmth than the label “African-American.” And whites “will react more negatively” toward “Blacks” than toward “African-Americans.”(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
...evermind.
My great grandparents ran the second largest chicken hatchery out in rural Hunterdin County, NJ. My mom grew up on that farm and said that when she was little, every summer they would have “Fresh Air Kids” from “The City” come out and live with them. I doubt such programs exist anymore... the hatchery doesn’t, thanks to NJ taxes.
Did anyone figure out the point of this article?
Looking at the picture.. no one is actually BLACK..
Their more of a tan... with lazy overtones..
with no doubt a pocket full of Obama-bucks..
lol....
Obama is no Negro, he is Mulatto at best, and raised as a privileged White boy.
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More appropriatly termed a Melungeon (tri-racial). From numerous other items I’ve read, Barak is 50% white, about 30% arab and about 20% black. ....Apparently, the arabian muslim mindset overides everything else in his agenda.
Most NEGROS are SOOOOOOOOOO RACIST that ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS SKIN COLOR !
Two thumbs up on your post #19.
Black individuals have been found to report the highest levels of self-esteem of any racial group in the United States. The purpose of the present research was to examine whether Black individuals also report higher levels of narcissism than White individuals. Study 1 (N = 367) found that Black individuals reported higher levels of narcissism than White individuals even when controlling for gender, self-esteem level, and socially desirable response tendencies. Study 2 (N = 967) and Study 3 (N = 315) found similar results such that Black individuals reported higher levels of narcissism than White individuals on the narcissism measures that captured less pathological facets of this construct. Study 3 also included indicators of psychological adjustment and found that the pathological aspects of narcissism were more strongly associated with maladjustment for Black individuals than for White individuals. The implications of these results for understanding the Black self-esteem advantage are discussed.
Another perfect example of high black self-esteem is the fact that black women have the most positive body image of all women. When males are questioned about which women they find most attractive, even black males rank black females the lowest. Black women, however, give themselves the highest scores.
Actually, I think Esther doesn’t understand at all when a white American hears “African-American” versus “black”.
For me, the term “black” is unassuming, very appropriate (when one considers the term for “whites”), and a more generic term for an American. When I hear “African-American” I hear separation, needless drumming for diversity, phony, pretentious and scheming - most of the time with some axe to grind, some penalty to be levied.
She’s got it all wrong.
They still use it - when they’re begging for money for UNCF...
It’s called “colorism”.
Will it ever end?
Stop thier public assitance every month until they do
raised as a privileged White boy surrounded by progressives, anarchists and communists, groomed by wealthy arabs to conquer America
Do you mean to say that your great-grandparents ran the second-largest chicken hatchery (what? in the world?) - and that it happened to be located in Hunterdin County?
Or do you mean to say that, of the various different chicken hatcheries in Hunterdin County, your great-grandparents ran the second-largest?
Regards,
And where are the leaders of the "Negros" telling those lazy bastards to jet a job,
married, and support their Baby mama's? And get off welfare handouts. Must be completely
embarrassing to be a Lazy-Ass Black Man on welfare handouts!
Want respect for your color? Get a job, all of you.
Then everyone would be held to the same standard, and we can't have that now can we?
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