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I anticipate more riots.
I don’t normally allow myself to imagine untoward events in the future. However, I do anticipate more riots when the Baltimore police verdicts come down.
Many, many people, black and white, have misconceived the trial and have set their hearts on outcomes that cannot obtain.
Racism study has the wrong people smiling.
Something As Simple As Smiling Can Help Curb Racial Bias, Study Suggests
Three hundred college students, mostly white, were divided into two groups. The first group watched videos in which a white person acted cordially toward a black person, e.g. smiling. The second group watched videos in which a white person snubbed a black person. After watching the videos, students in the first group showed relatively more positive attitudes towards blacks. Students in the second group showed relatively more negative attitudes toward blacks.
All this really tells me is that some white folk adopt the attitudes other white folk model.
I’m ready to regard the study itself as racist.
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“Don’t believe her defenders. Amy Schumer’s jokes are racist.”
This is how you become a white supremacist
The riots in Baltimore
As of Wednesday 04/29/15, I am beginning a new post (compare last Monday’s), as events prior to Monday afternoon 04/27/15 could be called “demonstrations,” but beginning that afternoon can instead be called “riots,” and I don’t want the two terms confused. Continue reading The riots in Baltimore
The twisties
Matter
matters.
The mayor’s conference on black-on-black crime …
… apparently went just as anticipated.
City leaders call on black men to mentor youths and stop the violence
“The usual suspects” — those you’d expect — all showed up — and none of the people who needed to.
Continue reading The mayor’s conference on black-on-black crime …
