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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: December 25, 2014, 6:12 pm
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Why we can't educate racism away
At its root, racism is a structural problem
By Ryan Cooper
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Agelbert NOTE: The article points at the solution.
What it fails to point out is that every single time ACTUAL
solutions like these are brought up, those very same people
pretending to be NON-racist scream and holler that "affirmative"
action is "reverse prejudice".
IOW, the privileged whites, regardless of their pretense of
being "color blind", are, in fact, QUITE MILITANT about making
sure their privileged status is not altered one bit! :(
So it goes.
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: December 27, 2014, 2:56 pm
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Thomas Locke, CA
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Dec 27, 12:19
Signature number 24,481
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> Dear Mr. President, While I have to admit that no single one
of the recent incidents of police using deadly force against
minorities could be cited in and of itself as wrongful, the
recent rash of such incidents shows there is still a
predisposition by police to use more force against
African-Americans and Latino Americans than they use against
White Americans.
>
> I have read accounts of Whites engaging in criminal mischief
without being met with force, or in some cases without their
even being arrested, while when minorities engage in similar
behavior they are subjected to harsh enforcement. Profiling has
no place in this century.
>
> Thomas E. Locke
>
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PETITION: Invite the Brown and Garner families to the State of
the Union Address!
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I wrote to Nathan Empsall, the originator of the Petition:
Thank you Nathan, for this noble effort. With efforts like
these, REAL, not cosmetic, structural reforms can be put in
place to stop this brutality and provide justice and equal
opportunity for people of color on a par with the people of
privilege.
Our society is upside down. Empathy gets almost no press and
Empire almost all of it. That is exactly backwards from the way
it should be in an intelligent society concerned with the
welfare of present and future generations.
Nathan, You give me hope for the future because you are truly a
person of GOOD WILL! God bless you and your family.
Here are some graphics that underline the importance of what you
are doing:
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An article I that defines the problem of our racist/fascist
police force:
Who Will Police the UNCONSTITUTIONAL Standing Army Brutal
Behavior of the Police?
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
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Date: December 30, 2014, 9:05 pm
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
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Date: January 9, 2015, 6:15 pm
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: February 2, 2015, 6:44 pm
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RACE TALK and the CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE
Published on Feb 2, 2015
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>
> Thom's guest for tonight's Conversations with Great Minds is
one of America's most influential thinkers on muliticulturalism
and race - Professor Derald Wing Sue. Currently a Professor of
Psychology and Education at the Teacher's College at Columbia
University - Professor Sue has been at the forefront of some the
most forward-thinking scholarship on race relations in America.
>
> His book "Microaggressions in Everyday Life" is now considered
a classic of its kind - and it won the inaugural UnityFirst dot
com National Diversity and Inclusion Book Prize .Professor Sue
is also the co-founder and first President of the Asian American
Psychological Association. His new book - "Race Talk and the
Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult
Dialogues on Race" - is a fascinating look into how we talk
about race and racism.
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Agelbert NOTE: More proof that the meritocracy is a myth; The
reality is a white male privilege pecking order (white females
suffer white male prejudice 24/7) with some token diversity for
looks. The pecking order includes less advantages for poor and
middle class with equal or greater potential (intelligence and
ability) than the upper middle class on up.
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Columbia University Professor Derald Wing Sue discusses the
incorrect academic view that emotion is antagonistic to reason,
the (white privilege based) color blind "protocol" (strategic
colorblindness), rhetorical incoherence and other techniques
used 24/7.
He also says that the ultimate "White Privilege" is to admit
there is racism and demonstrate no plans to attempt to change
that unfair status quo.
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> The big problem with meritocracy is that if we allow talented
poor children good educations and the ability to rise to the
level their talents will allow, then the dull, conventional,
blinkered spawn of the affluent will have to fall to the level
indicated by their (lack of) ability.
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- Vanessa Vitiello Urquhart Slate Writer
The Meritocracy Myth in the USA is a clever, ongoing elite PR
stunt called TOKEN opportunities for people of the WRONG color
who are poor and/or foreign. Of course the poor and lower middle
class whites are NOT given equal opportunities the upper middle
class on up have. But they are definitely more advantaged than
people of color.
This is NOT about the "most motivated" making it. That's a
Social Darwinist (erroneous) view of intelligence that is
contradicted by science and human politics on a daily basis.
It's also part of the "you can, if you are smart AND aggressive
AND determined enough" psychobabble pushed by our society to
make people think they have a chance if they really, really are
"smart enough".
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That's just another part of the clever con. It serves another
purpose besides fooling outsiders into thinking they have a
chance to make it; it makes that blinkered spawn, babied into
prosperity without any effort (or talent) on their part to merit
it, really believe they are special. LOL!
The door is FIRMLY shut to those who would undermine, in any
significant numbers, the comfort level of the blinkered spawn of
the affluent (and the middle class TOO!).
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 7, 2015, 12:51 pm
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Michelle Alexander: Ferguson Shows Why Criminal Justice System
of "Racial Control" Should Be Undone
SNIPPET 1:
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> The U.S. Justice Department has concluded that the police and
city courts in Ferguson, Missouri, routinely engaged in a
pattern and practice of discrimination against African
Americans.
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Agelbert NOTE: See water is wet in the USA.
OR, just correct the above statement by appropriate word
replacement - SEE BELOW:
1) engaged engage
2) Ferguson, Missouri the USA
3) African Americans Primarily African Americans, but including,
in decreasing levels of frequency by percentage, ALL minorities
AND targeted activist white folks that have issues with fascist
police fun and games.
Objective law enforcement? SURE
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SNIPPET 2:
AMY GOODMAN: Investigators also found that African Americans
constituted 96 percent of people arrested in traffic stops
solely for an outstanding warrant, 95 percent of jaywalking
charges, 94 percent of failure-to-comply charges, 92 percent of
all disturbing-the-peace charges. With traffic stops,
African-American motorists are twice as likely to be searched
when pulled over, even though searches of white drivers are more
likely to turn up drugs or other contraband.
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 7, 2015, 9:26 pm
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Why there's no such thing as "Reverse Racism"
by
hepshiba
Tim Wise just wrote a great diary on right wing racism. As
usual, though, in the comments some folks started claiming that
white folks could be the victims of "racism" too. Even though I
thought, from Tim's article, that the impossibility of that was
clear, it's a point that's very hard to get across.
Coincidentally, an ex-student of mine wrote to me last night and
asked me to remind her of my explanation of the impossibility of
"Reverse Racism" -- she's in an M.A. program and found herself
in a heated argument with some of her peers. So I wrote it down
for her and sent it off. I thought, though, that it might be a
useful document to post on DailyKos, so here it is...
Tim Wise just wrote a great diary on right wing racism. As
usual, though, in the comments some folks started claiming that
white folks could be the victims of "racism" too. Even though I
thought, from Tim's article, that the impossibility of that was
clear, it's a point that's very hard to get across.
Coincidentally, an ex-student of mine wrote to me last night and
asked me to remind her of my explanation of the impossibility of
"Reverse Racism" -- she's in an M.A. program and found herself
in a heated argument with some of her peers. So I wrote it down
for her and sent it off. I thought, though, that it might be a
useful document to post on DailyKos, so here it is...
In any discussion of racism and it's alleged "Reverse," it's
crucial to start with the definitions of prejudice and
discrimination, to lay the foundation for understanding racism
in context. There's a reason these three terms exist, and a
very good reason not to conflate them, as I'll demonstrate
below.
Prejudice is an irrational feeling of dislike for a person or
group of persons, usually based on stereotype. Virtually
everyone feels some sort of prejudice, whether it's for an
ethnic group, or for a religious group, or for a type of person
like blondes or fat people or tall people. The important thing
is they just don't like them -- in short, prejudice is a
feeling, a belief. You can be prejudiced, but still be a fair
person if you're careful not to act on your irrational dislike.
Discrimination takes place the moment a person acts on
prejudice. This describes those moments when one individual
decides not to give another individual a job because of, say,
their race or their religious orientation. Or even because of
their looks (there's a lot of hiring discrimination against
"unattractive" women, for example). You can discriminate,
individually, against any person or group, if you're in a
position of power over the person you want to discriminate
against. White people can discriminate against black people,
and black people can discriminate against white people if, for
example, one is the interviewer and the other is the person
being interviewed.
Racism, however, describes patterns of discrimination that are
institutionalized as "normal" throughout an entire culture. It's
based on an ideological belief that one "race" is somehow better
than another "race". It's not one person discriminating at this
point, but a whole population operating in a social structure
that actually makes it difficult for a person not to
discriminate.
A clear cut example is a slave-holding culture: people are born
into a society where one sort of person is "naturally" a master,
and another sort of person is "naturally" a slave (and sometimes
not considered a person at all, but a beast of burden). In a
culture like that, discrimination is built into the social,
economic and political fabric, and individuals -- even "free"
individuals -- don't really have a choice about whether they
discriminate or not because even if they don't believe in
slavery, they interact every day with slaves and the laws and
rules that keep slaves bound.
In a racist society, it takes a special act of courage and
willingness to subject oneself to scandal or danger to step
outside that system and become an abolitionist. It's not the
"fault" of every member of the master class that slavery exists,
and some might wish it was gone. But the fact is that every
single member of the master class benefits from the unpaid labor
of slaves at every level of society because they simply can't
avoid consuming the products that slavery produces, or
benefiting from the exploitation of slave labor. So unless
members of the master class rise up and oppose the system and
try to overthrow it (abolitionists, for example), they're going
to be complicit in the slave system: even abolitionists will
profit -- against their will -- in the slave system because they
still have to wear clothes or use other things the system
produced.
The above is an extreme, clear example, which I use to make it
easier to see the fuzzier, more complex situations in which we
operate today. Despite the fact that slaves were freed by the
Emancipation Proclamation, and that the 14th Amendment gave
African Americans voting rights, the institutional structures of
racism were not overturned. Even after the 14th was passed,
white people still had the power to prevent black people from
voting by instituting the poll tax, the grandfather clause, and
the "understanding" clause which required blacks to recite any
segment of the Constitution the registrar wanted them to recite.
In the Sixties, the Civil Rights Voting Acts were passed, which
knocked down those obstacles to voting. But black Americans
still do not have political power in proportion to their
presence in the population (even though there's a black
President).
If you look at important voting bodies like the Federal and the
State senates and congresses, or at the Federal and State
supreme courts, or at the CEO list of major corporations, or at
any other body that wields substantial power in the U.S., you
will count only a few black faces (and in some cases, none).
Out of the number of black faces you count, most of them will
not be representing the views of the majority of black people in
this country, but the views of the white majority. On the other
hand, if you count the number of black people in poverty, and in
prisons, or the number of people who are unemployed or lack
health care, there are far more black people in these categories
than is proportionate to their numbers in the larger society.
Unless you are going to argue that blacks are "naturally"
inferior to whites (which is an outright racist position), you
have to admit that there is some mechanism that is limiting
black opportunity. That's the mechanism we call "racism" -- the
interacting social, political, and economic rule systems that
all discriminate, either overtly (racial profiling, for example)
or covertly (i.e., white majority governments redrawing district
voting lines so that black majority areas are politically split
up and don't have the electoral power to vote in black
candidates; or, white-run banks using zip codes as a criteria
for excluding people who apply for loans, and just "happening"
to exclude all the majority black neighborhoods in a city, a
practice called "red-lining"). One could go on for hours about
these various mechanisms, and I'm sure you can think of plenty
on your own which discriminate against blacks, Hispanics,
"Arab-looking" people, Native Americans, & so on.
Now to "Reverse Racism." It's crucial to maintain the
distinction between the above three terms, because otherwise
white people tend to redefine "Discrimination" as "Racism".
Their main argument is that because both blacks and white can
discriminate against each other, that "Reverse Racism" is
possible. But the truth of the matter is that black people: 1)
have far less opportunity to discriminate against whites than
whites have to discriminate against blacks, overall; and 2)
black people lack a system of institutionalized support that
protect them when they discriminate against whites.
It took black and white people working together for one hundred
years to get programs like Affirmative Action installed in the
U.S., but it took one white man (Alan Bakke) only a single
Supreme Court case to get those programs dismantled because he
felt he didn't gain entry into medical school based on his white
race.
"Reverse Racism" would only describe a society in which all the
rules and roles were turned upside down. That has not happened
in the U.S., however much white right wing ideologues want to
complain that they're being victimized by the few points of
equality that minorities and women have managed to claim. White
people who complain about "Reverse Racism" are actually
complaining about being denied their privileges, rather than
being denied their rights. They feel entitled to be hired and
not to be discriminated against, even though the norm is white
people discriminating against blacks. If, in a rare instance, a
black employer discriminates against a white job applicant,
that's not "reverse" anything -- it's simple discrimination.
It's to be condemned on principle, but it's not evidence of some
systematic program by which whites are being deprived of their
rights.
The right wing popularized the term "Reverse Racism" because
they were really angry at having their white privileges
challenged. Anyone who uses that phrase, whether they are right
wing or not, furthers the right wing's cause. This is what I
tell Democrats and progressives who I hear using the term -- not
only are they being inaccurate, but they're helping out their
opponents.
The above arguments can be applied to any institutionalized
structure of oppression, affecting any race, ethnic or religious
group, and can be used to to oppose claims of "Reverse Sexism"
too.
I hope that clarifies things a bit.
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
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Date: April 8, 2015, 4:42 pm
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Tue Apr 07, 2015 at 09:52 PM PDT.
Ferguson, MO City Council Becomes Diverse as Two African
Americans Win Office
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Tue Apr 07, 2015 at 06:31 AM PDT.
Three black men, convicted as teens, exonerated in Ohio after
serving 20 years in prison
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by
Shaun King
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Police officer to face murder charges for shooting man in back 8
times
by Walter Einenkel
PICTURE OF THE MURDER (Yeah, it was a WHITE cop KILLING a BLACK
man >:() at link.
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If you have not read "The Unsteady March", then you do not know
what has actually been DONE to African Americans in this country
since over a century BEFORE 1776. They were promised property
and equality when they were needed (USED
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systematically ABUSED through denial of "white" rights under the
law.
The next war comes and the same empty promises are given, only
to have the POLICE and the COURTS "put them in their place
again" after the war. :(
And don't think it is an equal up and down thing. It is not. The
duration of the war(s), along with the empty promises
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Americans, African Americans have ALWAYS been a people under a
clever and ruthless RACIST siege by MOST (not just the powerful)
Americans of white European descent.
And the BLACK president? ::) Obama knows he is a token that had
better tow the line in the unending gaming of minorities in this
fascist paradise. Being a "house nigger" is the ONLY real path
to a certain amount of prosperity and tranquility that African
Americans have EVER HAD in the USA. The Constitution WAS NOT
written for African Americans.
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"The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in
America" by Philip A. Klinkner and Rogers M. Smith is reviewed.
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> In spite of the history of enslavement, hostility, and
continued discrimination experienced by African Americans, it is
possible to put together an optimistic portrait of racial
progress in the United States. In a series of constitutional
amendments following the Civil War, former slaves were
recognized as American citizens and promised constitutional
rights, including full political participation. And in spite of
many setbacks along the way, there have been significant
improvements in the social, political, and economic conditions
for most black Americans over the last fifty years.
>
> However, it is also possible to assemble a very pessimistic
account of the historical and contemporary status of African
Americans. The promise of racial freedom and progress of the
Reconstruction Era ended in little more than a decade after the
Civil War. The rise of Jim Crow, sanctioned by state law
throughout the South, and the system of de facto segregation and
semi-official discrimination in the rest of the country were
only ended by the power of the Civil Rights movement and the
threat of a second civil war.
>
> In spite of significant economic improvements and the creation
of a sizable black middle class, there has been only modest
progress in the racial integration of neighborhoods, schools,
churches, and other social institutions. Playing the race card
to mobilize white voters based on their fears of blacks has been
a perennial feature of American politics.
>
> Social science has not had an easy time providing a plausible
theoretical explanation of this complex and often contradictory
history of race relations in the United States. Any theory of
continuity, whether of unremitting white racism or of gradual
enlightenment, is inconsistent with the zigs and zags of
history. Historians tend to eschew broad theoretical accounts in
favor of interpretations of trends and events in specific
periods. Most social scientists focus on the contemporary period
that usually allows for an assumption of stability or only one
major historical change that requires an explanation.
>
> In a very bold volume, political scientists Philip Klinkner
and Rogers Smith take on the task of explaining the entire
fabric of American race relations, from seventeenth century
Virginia to the political dynamics of the Reagan and Clinton
administrations of the late twentieth century. Even though the
authors fall short of their ambitions. The Unsteady March: The
Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America is a book with a
novel interpretation that deserves serious discussion and
debate.
>
> In a nutshell, Klinkner and Smith argue that African Americans
have only made progress when black soldiers were essential for
winning a war.
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During
the Revolutionary War, somewhere between five and eight thousand
blacks served as soldiers; and perhaps one-hundred thousand
slaves, about one-fifth of the total slave population, gained
their freedom through one means or another during this period.
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Agelbert NOTE: The book was written by academic scholars. It is
just over 417 pages long. It has a bibliography that references
absolutely every quote and historical activity provided as
evidence for the way it REALLY WORKS (past AND PRESENT) in this
country. Bring a sandwich if you want to challenge these
scholars. 8)
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