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Sunday, October 5, 2014

Black Men = Thugs? The White Subconscious at Work?

View Of Black Men As Thugs Is Deep-Seated Prejudice (Cynthia Tucker) from the National Memo
"Did race play a role in the shooting? Probably. The officers were white, as was the shopper who made a highly embellished 911 call. Crawford was black. And the conviction that black men are dangerous thugs is deeply rooted in the American psyche, a smear that took root back in the days of slavery. It is a prejudice — an implicit bias — that permeates the unconscious mind, whether or not people are aware of it."

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