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Are we becoming less racist? There’s good news and bad news! Good news until 2016, we were becoming less. After 2016, we don’t know, but you know, don’t you?
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Suburban white voters once again powered a GQP victory seduced by the sweet Siren song of racist dog whistling. Maybe we really should just divide ourselves into red and blue countries and dissolve the United States.
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What factors determine whether a police officer shoots or not? Our brains are complex, but we can narrow it down to several factors: (1) race of the suspect, (2) priming of the officer to shoot, and (3) the possibility that the suspect is armed. With so many guns in society, police have to assume everyone is armed. It all adds up to ensuring that PoC are hurt first and worst by our violence prone policing.
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It’s Black History Month, so I thought I’d repost this article from 20 August 2017 written shortly after the Charlottesville Good People On Both Sides White Supremacist Rally.
The five things listed here for white people to do to end racism are really really good and effective. You should give ’em a go and tell us about it in the comments!
The Dems presidential candidates were debating on day 2 of their first debate. It was Rock ‘Em, Sock ‘Em Robots for much of the debate. There is but one question, though, who won? Get the psysplainer for how to interpret the outcome of day 2’s debate!
With so many proposals for arming teachers and suggestions that good guys with guns can stop bad guys with guns and then actual mass shootings where unarmed good guys stop the armed bad guys and violent arrests of young women because of plastic cutlery, you gotta wonder, would I shoot an unarmed black man if I had the chance? This implicit bias game helps you figure it all out.
Okay, Charlottesville happened, the Ol’ Pussy Grabber happened, Boston Commons happened; now what? Here are five things white people can do if they are serious about ending racism
Take the challenge! Take the Harvard Implicit Bias test and bare your biases to the world! It will be fun! It will be illuminating! You will find out something — perhaps even surprising — about yourself!
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