Comments on: Racist Profiling: Why Do Mainstream Media and Officials Ignore the Data?

By: Racism in Every Nook and Cranny of Society? :: racismreview.com

Racism in Every Nook and Cranny of Society? :: racismreview.com — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:12:03 +0000

[...] As I have pointed out before, a recent ACLU report has summarized racial profiling studies involving numerous police departments as showing “large differences in the rate of stops and searches for African Americans and Latinos, and often, Indians (Native Americans) and Asians, even though these groups are less likely to have contraband.” [...]

By: racismreview.com » Blog Archive » More Driving While Black (DWB): Are Parts of the US a “Police State”?

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:10:37 +0000

[...] Numerous research and policy studies, including some by the ACLU, have shown that this type of racial profiling is all too common in the United States today. [...]

By: No1KState

No1KState — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:14:29 +0000

@ Ellen – You’re welcome. Now, I don’t exactly understand the problem between you and jwbe, but just so you know, I don’t want it to seem like I’m welcoming vs jwbe being unwelcoming. jwbe’s cool.

By: jwbe

jwbe — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:20:03 +0000

for ellen: because I was quoting your question with the college degree, it’s of course: school eduaction is irrelevant when it comes to real life knowledge.
You reveal a lot about yourself btw:-)

By: ellen says

ellen says — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:34:35 +0000

jwbe said: “1. education is irrelevant when it comes to real life knowledge, most of all in a system of white supremacy where education is eurocentric.”
Wow. You really hard core. There’s still a tremendous amount you can learn from written history..including the history of minorities. But, if you want to take the stance, “I’m not reading history, and I don’t have to cause It’s All Eurocentric!”..that’s fine.
By the way, in case you haven’t read about it: the Revolutionary War ended 230 years ago, President Kennedy was assassinated, lots of Hitler’s henchmen got the death sentence at Nuremburg, Micheal Jackson’s dead, Russia is no longer Communist, the Berlin Wall’s down, nobody dances the Jitter Bug anymore, Egypt is no longer ruled by pharoahs, and Cleopatra committed suicide with an asp. Just a quickie run-down.

By: jwbe

jwbe — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:59:24 +0000

>I specifically said I would welcome other reactions
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I told you my reaction, and I can see now your reaction towards me;-) You try to nullify my knowledge and my experiences.
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>1. What college did you graduate from [if indeed you went at all]?
2. What country are you from?
3. What is your First Language if English is your second?
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1. education is irrelevant when it comes to real life knowledge, most of all in a system of white supremacy where education is eurocentric.
2. Germany
3. see above;-)

By: ellen says

ellen says — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:53:12 +0000

This is yet another reason for a Health Care System in America that is accessible to all. This would help many citizens, especially the ones mentioned in the article below.

Young Black males facing mental health crisis

Posted: Friday, September 19, 2008 12:52 pm

A significant increase in mental illness and behavioral problems among adolescent African-American males demonstrates the need for new approaches to treatment and better understanding of the complex challenges facing these youths, according to a policy paper issued by Community Voices: Healthcare for the Underserved, an advocacy group based at Morehouse School of Medicine.

The paper, titled “The Secret Epidemic: Exploring the Mental Health Crisis Affecting Adolescent African-American Males,” outlines data indicating that mental health problems are rising among members of this at-risk group, their access to treatment facilities is relatively low and treatment strategies must be revamped to address the socioeconomic issues that confront them.

“Our research found that many young Black males are treatable, but they are going undiagnosed because of failures in America’s health-care system,” said Dr. Henrie M. Treadwell, Director of Community Voices, a nonprofit seeking to improve health services and access to health care. “Our entire society feels the impact of this failure. Suicides and homicides have increased for this group, and the residual effect is impacting communities across the country. This problem must be addressed.”

Dr. Claire Xanthos, a health services research specialist, wrote the paper, which cites studies showing that Black males ages 15-19 die from homicide at 46 times the rate of their white counterparts and that from 1980 to 1995, the suicide rate for Black adolescents rose from 5.6 to 13 per 100,000 of the population.

Xanthos writes that “these figures should not be surprising since adolescent African-American males in contemporary American society face major challenges to their psychological development and well-being. In addition to dealing with the physical, mental and emotional issues typically experienced during adolescence, adolescent African-American males are confronted with unique social and environmental stressors. They must frequently cope with racism and its associated stressors, including family stressors, educational stressors, and urban stressors.”

Moreover, the paper notes that:

• Racism can affect mental health by reducing socioeconomic status, diminishing access to desirable resources and contributing to poor living conditions.

• When positive adult male role models are absent, many Black youths turn to their peers for help in forming a male identity, an adaptation that often means absorbing negative influences.

• Urban stress is an important factor in the psychological development of young Black males because many live in deprived and dangerous neighborhoods where they are exposed to violence.

• Significant problems are also encountered by Black males who grow up in predominantly white, middle-class communities where they feel distanced from the white youths and also from Blacks from poorer communities.

http://www.louisianaweekly.com/news.php?viewStory=343

By: ellen says

ellen says — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:03:33 +0000

To jwbe: I refuse to respond to any more of your posts until you answer three questions:
1. What college did you graduate from [if indeed you went at all]?
2. What country are you from?
3. What is your First Language if English is your second?
That’s simple enough. Think you can do that? Thanks. It’s been real.

By: ellen says

ellen says — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:56:20 +0000

@ jwbe: I Never Said:
‘Don’t you feel the same’.
I specifically said I would welcome other reactions to my “experiment”.
Sorry, once again you are itching for a fight For Some Strange Reason you target me. Why don’t you attack Some Real Bona Fide Racists who post on this site Instead of Someone who Just Doesn’t Understand your English As A Second Language writing?

By your own admission, you have a reading comprehension problem. If this is the case, then why do you dissect another’s writings if This Is Your Achilles Heal? [I assume you know What That Means..Greek Mythology? I'm beginning to realize with you, I have to spell everything out else you get Confused.]
Stick to the basic 6th grade text from the White Racists who utilize poor vocabulary and spelling. Surely you can understand Them. Then you can vent all your frustrations and criticize Them! Or are you too timid to tackle a Real Racist so you attack me?

What Is It With You? Just jealous of my Cornell Degree in History? Where did you go to college? Yeah..let me guess..you never went. Just as I suspected. And what country are you from anyway? Someone who is so Full of Criticism should be a little more self revealing. Why take stabs at me and then run and hide?

By: jwbe

jwbe — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:15:17 +0000

@ellen
>Please don’t put an educated woman in that dumb category jwbe. Thanks.
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I didn’t say you are looking for a pat, I said that such questions are often looking for confirmation: ‘Don’t you feel the same’.
I also said, ‘I feel what it means to be me in a society like this, you only read, ‘I feel what it means to be me. The difference you don’t seem to understand and your minor in psychology and your education doesn’t help you alot as it seems.
My writing becomes ‘muddled’ in your perception, because you even don’t try to empathize with what I write.
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There is an article about stereotypes, quote:
“The success of this process of “de-automatization” comes with a few caveats, however. First, even its proponents concede that it works only for people disturbed by the discrepancy between their conscious and unconscious beliefs since unapologetic racists or sexists have no motivation to change. Second, some studies have shown that attempts to suppress stereotypes may actually cause them to return later, stronger than ever. And finally, the results that Monteith and other researchers have achieved in the laboratory may not stick in the real world, where people must struggle to maintain their commitment to equality under less-than-ideal conditions.
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Challenging though that task might be, it is not as daunting as the alternative researchers suggest: changing society itself. Bargh, who likens de-automatization to closing the barn door once the horses have escaped, says that “it’s clear that the way to get rid of stereotypes is by the roots, by where they come from in the first place.” The study of culture may someday tell us where the seeds of prejudice originated; for now, the study of the unconscious shows us just how deeply they’re planted.”
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199805/where-bias-begins-the-truth-about-stereotypes?page=4
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This is were I come from: Questioning society and with it its entire culture.
You ask where your anxiety might come from, I could give you some of my thoughts to it, but I realize that you aren’t seriously interested in it, otherwise your reactions towards my already existing posts would have been different.