Feeding from @flagooner comment: Racism in America. How can Americans espouse a
CJKent (Banned)
“The more a person needs to be right, the less certain he is...”
an study authored by Swedish Nobel-laureate economist Gunnar Myrdal is used by PBS documentary “American Denial” to examine racism in America.
Why so many Americans still deny racism exists when the evidence is everywhere?
The documentary shows the pattern of racial oppression that we have actively recreated throughout history to the present moment -- while just as actively denying its experience and consequences .
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lvXQXGorLG…
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I never considered myself racist. I am opposed to racism and have been ever since I was old enough to have an opinion on the issue.
A black comedian I saw on TV convinced me by his clever monologue that I held racist attitudes. He described driving down the street in a fashionable, prosperous neighborhood and noticing a young WASP male driving a sporty new BMW convertible. He assumed the young man had earned an M.B.A. Later he noticed a young black dude driving a similar convertible and assumed the guy was a drug dealer.
The joke was funny because of how it was delivered and because it rang true. But it also forced me to recognize my own latent racism.
There is an upside. You can’t work on a problem unless you first recognize that it exists.
Racism is institutional and systemic. White America's normativeness is such an obvious omnipresent example, and yet whites can use their privilege to not even be aware of it...
SJG
Frances Fox Piven, Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQBgRPtL…
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IHG…
NOLO, Bourbon Street
http://doxyspotting.com/?p=131772
AZTECA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS9WVbQT…
SJG
Frances Fox Piven, Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQBgRPtL…
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IHG…
NOLO, Bourbon Street
http://doxyspotting.com/?p=131772
AZTECA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS9WVbQT…
SJG
Frances Fox Piven, Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQBgRPtL…
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IHG…
NOLO, Bourbon Street
http://doxyspotting.com/?p=131772
AZTECA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS9WVbQT…