[CNN Article] Race hatred is a deep sickness in America

robbie380 · Jun 21, 2015

Sweet Lou 4 2 said: ↑

I'm saying that we have in our nature the tendency to label and judge others different from the group we identify with. We tend to apply negative attributes towards those outside that group.
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I don't think that is true. I don't think humans tend to apply negative attributes towards people that aren't apart of their "group". I know I certainly don't.

We may not even been aware - it might not be conscious. It might be subtle - an uncomfortability. There's plenty of tests that show that the exact resume sent with a white sounding name vs. a black sound name get very different response rates.
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Yeah I'm aware of that and it sucks. People get judged by their names no matter what the race or gender. There's a reason why my friend Bubba goes by the name of Grant. I try to be conscious of potential bias and not judge based on a name. It's amazing how well the action of recognizing bias works to remove bias. You recognize it, fix it, and move on. I dunno...maybe I'm odd, but that's why that Morgan Freeman point of view made sense to me.

I find it a lot in my work. I work in advertising as a strategist. At a conference I haven't even spoken but people just assume I work in IT - why? Because I am Indian! Other Indian men in the ad world have mentioned the same thing. Would any of these people say they are biased? Of course not, but it's there. In my case, it's very easy to dispel and overcome.

But I see it on subtle and slight ways in corporations all the time.
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When something is common then people make assumptions. I wouldn't say this is biased or racist unless they continue to treat you a certain way or deny you for opportunities after becoming familiar with your background.

Sweet Lou 4 2 · Jun 22, 2015

robbie380 said: ↑

I don't think that is true. I don't think humans tend to apply negative attributes towards people that aren't apart of their "group". I know I certainly don't.

Yeah I'm aware of that and it sucks. People get judged by their names no matter what the race or gender. There's a reason why my friend Bubba goes by the name of Grant. I try to be conscious of potential bias and not judge based on a name. It's amazing how well the action of recognizing bias works to remove bias. You recognize it, fix it, and move on. I dunno...maybe I'm odd, but that's why that Morgan Freeman point of view made sense to me.

When something is common then people make assumptions. I wouldn't say this is biased or racist unless they continue to treat you a certain way or deny you for opportunities after becoming familiar with your background.
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Studies show that stereotypes do play out in denying or holding people in certain ways. And the people doing it aren't even aware of it. If you really want to see if you have biases you aren't aware of, take the Harvard tests on bias. They cover sex, homophobia, race, and more.

justtxyank · Jun 22, 2015

Another good article on CNN today.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/22/opinions/chase-confederate-flag-history-verdict/index.html

To begin his Charleston massacre, the confessed murderer Dylann Storm Roof coldly told his victims the cause that animated his deadly violence. "You rape our women, and you're taking over our country," Roof exclaimed, "and you have to go."

Each of these frightful exclamations -- the fear of miscegenation (interracial sex), the fear of black empowerment and the threat of racial genocide -- echo a history that lives on today in a visceral lineage of white domestic terrorism. By drawing on the notion of miscegenation and concocted fears of black male sexuality, the murderer evoked the same cultural paranoia that animated nearly a century of lynching in the United States.
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After the Charleston massacre, we must, as a nation, have the kind of historical reevaluation and cultural reckoning that Germany underwent after the horrors of the Nazi regime when the nation enacted national hate crime laws and made the display of the swastika illegal.
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The first step in this process must be the removal of the Confederate flag from South Carolina's state Capitol. A second could be to change the name of the street where the "Mother" Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church sits from Calhoun Street, named for staunch slavery proponent John C. Calhoun, to Emanuel Street. A third is to initiate national teach-ins on the history of racial violence in America.
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First, the day after the shooting in Charleston, the flags at the state Capitol in Columbia stood at half-staff, while the Confederate flag, maintained at the Capitol's Civil War and Confederate memorial as part of a political "compromise," flew at full-staff. As a symbol of this living legacy, Glenn McConnell, a former state senator and now president of the College of Charleston, insisted that the removal of the Confederate flag was analogous to "cultural genocide," so he brokered the political "compromise" that allowed the Confederate flag to continue to fly at the Capitol with the promise that he would never allow "symbolically burying the Confederate banner" because "encasement represents entombment."
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The connection between this revered church and civil rights is an integral, but underreported, part of this story. In 1909, Booker T. Washington spoke at Emanuel AME Church; in 1962, King took the civil rights movement to that church; and in 1969, his widow, Coretta Scott King, spoke there to connect the struggle for civil rights with economic justice as she marched in Charleston's Hospital Workers Strike. The assassination of Pinckney at Emanuel AME Church must be understood in the context of this history of both black spirituality and its connection to civil rights and social justice.

The third historical irony is that the day that Roof killed nine people in prayer also marked the 193rd anniversary of what would have been the Denmark Vesey slave insurrection had it not been foiled by an informant who told Charleston planters of the slaves' plans to achieve their liberation.

When Charleston planters discovered the Denmark Vesey conspiracy in 1822, Emanuel AME Church was investigated for having a role in the plot, and even though its pastor, the Rev. Morris Brown, was exonerated, he was drummed out of South Carolina and the church itself was summarily burned down.

The church was then forced to close its doors altogether after South Carolina passed a law in 1835 prohibiting any black person -- free or enslaved -- to worship without the oversight of whites. The church was not resurrected until after the Civil War.
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Suppression of black churches

The historical suppression of black-controlled churches and religion has been a response to black resistance. When the civil rights movement demanded an end to the Jim Crow South, the response from white terrorists was to bomb over 300 black churches during the 1960s -- the most famous of which was the nightmare bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four young girls only three weeks after Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. During the Freedom Summer of 1964, a church burned almost every other day in Mississippi. Perhaps it was these historic examples of violence against black churches during moments of resistance to racial oppression that guided Roof's fateful and terrible act.

These historic episodes of racial oppression and violence tread a terrible path directly to the door of Emanuel AME Church. Following this path shows both the resiliency of African-American spirituality, religiosity, and a sustained commitment to social justice, as well as the historical effort to silence black religion and stifle civil rights through gun violence.
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