All things Racist...USA edition (2 Viewers)

Optimus Prime said:

Report due out next month
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As Native Americans cautiously welcome Pope Francis’ historic apology for abuses at Catholic-run boarding schools for Indigenous children in Canada, U.S. churches are bracing for an unprecedented reckoning with their own legacies of operating such schools.

Church schools are likely to feature prominently in a report from the U.S. Department of the Interior, led by the first-ever Native American cabinet secretary, Deb Haaland, due to be released later this month. The report, prompted by last year's discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential school sites in Canada, will focus on the loss of life and the enduring traumas the U.S. system inflicted on Indigenous children from the 19th to mid-20th centuries.

From Episcopalians to Quakers to Catholic dioceses in Oklahoma, faith groups have either started or intensified efforts in the past year to research and atone for their prior roles in the boarding school system, which Native children were forced to attend — cutting them off from their families, tribes and traditions.

While the pontiff's April 1 apology was addressed to Indigenous groups from Canada, people were listening south of the border.

“An apology is the best way to start any conversation,” said Roy Callison, a Catholic deacon and Cherokee Nation member helping coordinate the Oklahoma Catholic Native Schools Project, which includes listening sessions for those affected by the boarding school legacy. “That’s the first step to trying to get healing.”

In his meeting with Canada's Indigenous delegations, Francis asked forgiveness “for the role that a number of Catholics ... had in all these things that wounded you, in the abuses you suffered and in the lack of respect shown for your identity, your culture and even your spiritual values.”........

First pope, now US churches face boarding-school reckoning

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So, CRT?

brandon said:

So, CRT?

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So now all apologies are CRT? So if you admit past atrocities you are practicing CRT? Can't have that. Why apologize for the past when you can just igore it and try to pass bills to make sure its illegal to even talk about it, that seems a better way to go...

Bigdaddysaints said:

So now all apologies are CRT? So if you admit past atrocities you are practicing CRT? Can't have that. Why apologize for the past when you can just igore it and try to pass bills to make sure its illegal to even talk about it, that seems a better way to go...

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Yea, that’s my point. Shoulda put the /s tag.

brandon said:

Yea, that’s my point. Shoulda put the /s tag.

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Sorry, its early, and for some reason i thought that reply was from Farb, because that is 100% of what he would say..lol

I wish I could say I'm surprised by this, but I'm not
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Learning about how COVID-19 has disproportionately affected communities of color may lead to an unintended and unsettling consequence for many white people: prompting them to care less about the pandemic, according to a University of Georgia study published last week.

The study, which found white people who read about these disparities showed reduced fear of COVID-19 and less empathy for those most vulnerable to the virus, builds on recent research yielding similar results and is another example of studies shedding light on how entrenched racial biases are in society, lead author Allison Skinner-Dorkenoo said.

The results even confounded researchers' attempts at eliciting empathy from white participants, prompting new speculation about the best ways to present information on the pandemic's racial disparities.

At the start of the pandemic, Skinner-Dorkenoo, assistant psychology professor at the University of Georgia, found it counterintuitive that learning about racial inequities could reduce a person's empathy and concern. But she grew to expect the result, based on two principles.

First, people tend to have less empathy for groups they don’t belong to, she said. Additionally, white people may also be less concerned about issues that disproportionately impact people of color because, in a society built on systemic racism, this is how they expect things to be, she said.

"From its founding, we had a country that was unequal in terms of race and white people have always had the upper hand in essentially every way, including health," she said. "That combined with the fact that people expect that things will sort of continue the way they always have, may be contributing."

Skinner-Dorkenoo called the results disheartening and distressing, adding she's unsure of how to discuss them with her students and worried about how “unimaginably demoralizing” it may be for some students of color.

“Although I predicted this would happen, it's still difficult to see the data,” she said.

As a result, Skinner-Dorkenoo said it's important to continue sharing critical information about how COVID-19 has disproportionately harmed communities of color, but people should provide additional context around the data. And researchers should further explore what specific methods may be most effective.

Early in the pandemic, Skinner-Dorkenoo shared news articles about COVID-19 racial disparities in death rates as a result of systemic racism. But a friend reached out, worried that such efforts could backfire and harm communities of color by making white people less concerned about the pandemic.

These concerns became the driving force behind the study, which included a sample of 1,500 white Americans. The first part of the study tested the association between awareness of racial disparities and fear of COVID-19, finding that the more aware participants were of these disparities, the less fearful they were of the virus and the less supportive they were of COVID-19 precautions.

In the second part of the study, researchers presented news stories that either did or didn't include data on COVID-19 and race. They found that reading about disparities reduced fear of COVID-19, empathy for those most vulnerable to the virus, and support for pandemic precautions.

As a result, publicizing racial disparities may create a “vicious cycle” among white people. It can paradoxically perpetuate the same inequities by reducing support for policies that could counter them, Skinner-Dorkenoo said.

The study is far from the first to document a link between knowledge of injustice and apathy toward that injustice...........

Bigdaddysaints said:

Sorry, its early, and for some reason i thought that reply was from Farb, because that is 100% of what he would say..lol

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Bigdaddysaints said:

So now all apologies are CRT? So if you admit past atrocities you are practicing CRT? Can't have that. Why apologize for the past when you can just igore it and try to pass bills to make sure its illegal to even talk about it, that seems a better way to go...

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I will bite.
Who should be apologizing and to whom and why?

Farb said:

I will bite.
Who should be apologizing and to whom and why?

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Primary representatives of major organizations and/or countries that in the past committed atrocities against certain peoples, and whose organizations and/or countries have not previously apologized and made amends for those atrocities, should apologize for those atrocities.

The reason is because atrocities are bad things and we learned to apologize when we do bad things when we were three.

About the Crown Act
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Last month, in the third year of a global pandemic, amid atrocities in Europe and battles at home over voting and abortion and basic human rights, the House of Representatives passed a bill about hair.


The Crown Act (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act), whose fate now rests with the Senate, seeks to provide legal protection for Black people and other minorities who face discrimination based on their hair.

One of the nays, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), called the bill trivial compared with other matters facing our country: “How about a world where gas prices aren’t five dollars a gallon? … How about a world where inflation isn’t at a 40-year high?” Jordan argued. “Those are the issues we should be focused on.”

Jordan is wrong.


The historical politicization of hair has created stereotypes and biases that affect Black people’s ability to thrive, and our laws do not adequately address this discrimination.

Jordan and other critics have argued that the Crown Act is redundant because the Civil Rights Act of 1964 already offers protections against racial discrimination.

But supporters of the bill rightly point out that clearer language is necessary to guide the courts in their interpretation of the law.


For instance, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued a company called Catastrophe Management Solutions after it rescinded a Black applicant’s job offer because she refused to cut off her dreadlocks.

In 2016, a federal judge ruled that the company’s choice was not a violation of the Civil Rights Act. The act prevents discrimination against immutable characteristics, those seen as unchangeable and innate to a person’s being.

But the court decided that hairstyles “suitable for Black hair texture,” as the EEOC described them, do not constitute an immutable characteristic.

Such rulings have far-reaching consequences — especially for Black women. According to the results of a 2019 survey of over 2,000 women, Black women were 80 percent more likely than non-Black women to say they’d had to alter their hair to fit in at work.

The same study found that Black women whose hair was natural or braided were consistently rated as “less ready” for job performance.

These biases can threaten the livelihoods of Black people, who have reported being passed up for promotions or even fired because of their hair.
In schools, there are countless reports of Black children’s education and playtime being disrupted because their hair is considered “inappropriate.”

In New Jersey, a 16-year-old wrestler was forced to cut off his dreadlocks before a match.

Administrators at a school in Orlando threatened to expel a 12-year-old girl because her natural hair was deemed a “distraction.”…….

Farb said:

I will bite.
Who should be apologizing and to whom and why?

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Maybe we should erect new statues of Stonewall Jackson holding up a sign that says "I'm sorry, #BLM"

samiam5211 said:

Maybe we should erect new statues of Stonewall Jackson holding up a sign that says "I'm sorry, #BLM"

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Just them put the ones still standing holding white flags...

samiam5211 said:

Maybe we should erect new statues of Stonewall Jackson holding up a sign that says "I'm sorry, #BLM"

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What does Stonewall have to apologize for and again, to who should he apologize?

Farb said:

What does Stonewall have to apologize for and again, to who should he apologize?

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To the United States of America, he was after all, a traitor.

Optimus Prime said:

I wish I could say I'm surprised by this, but I'm not
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Learning about how COVID-19 has disproportionately affected communities of color may lead to an unintended and unsettling consequence for many white people: prompting them to care less about the pandemic, according to a University of Georgia study published last week.

The study, which found white people who read about these disparities showed reduced fear of COVID-19 and less empathy for those most vulnerable to the virus, builds on recent research yielding similar results and is another example of studies shedding light on how entrenched racial biases are in society, lead author Allison Skinner-Dorkenoo said.

The results even confounded researchers' attempts at eliciting empathy from white participants, prompting new speculation about the best ways to present information on the pandemic's racial disparities.

At the start of the pandemic, Skinner-Dorkenoo, assistant psychology professor at the University of Georgia, found it counterintuitive that learning about racial inequities could reduce a person's empathy and concern. But she grew to expect the result, based on two principles.

First, people tend to have less empathy for groups they don’t belong to, she said. Additionally, white people may also be less concerned about issues that disproportionately impact people of color because, in a society built on systemic racism, this is how they expect things to be, she said.

"From its founding, we had a country that was unequal in terms of race and white people have always had the upper hand in essentially every way, including health," she said. "That combined with the fact that people expect that things will sort of continue the way they always have, may be contributing."

Skinner-Dorkenoo called the results disheartening and distressing, adding she's unsure of how to discuss them with her students and worried about how “unimaginably demoralizing” it may be for some students of color.

“Although I predicted this would happen, it's still difficult to see the data,” she said.

As a result, Skinner-Dorkenoo said it's important to continue sharing critical information about how COVID-19 has disproportionately harmed communities of color, but people should provide additional context around the data. And researchers should further explore what specific methods may be most effective.

Early in the pandemic, Skinner-Dorkenoo shared news articles about COVID-19 racial disparities in death rates as a result of systemic racism. But a friend reached out, worried that such efforts could backfire and harm communities of color by making white people less concerned about the pandemic.

These concerns became the driving force behind the study, which included a sample of 1,500 white Americans. The first part of the study tested the association between awareness of racial disparities and fear of COVID-19, finding that the more aware participants were of these disparities, the less fearful they were of the virus and the less supportive they were of COVID-19 precautions.

In the second part of the study, researchers presented news stories that either did or didn't include data on COVID-19 and race. They found that reading about disparities reduced fear of COVID-19, empathy for those most vulnerable to the virus, and support for pandemic precautions.

As a result, publicizing racial disparities may create a “vicious cycle” among white people. It can paradoxically perpetuate the same inequities by reducing support for policies that could counter them, Skinner-Dorkenoo said.

The study is far from the first to document a link between knowledge of injustice and apathy toward that injustice...........

MSN

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Weird.

Bigdaddysaints said:

To the United States of America, he was after all, a traitor.

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So was George Washington to the crown. Do we, as Americans, need to apologize to the queen?

Farb said:

So was George Washington to the crown. Do we, as Americans, need to apologize to the queen?

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Really?

Farb said:

So was George Washington to the crown. Do we, as Americans, need to apologize to the queen?

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Nope. Washington won the war. You're guy didn't.

A really interesting piece on policing and racism in police departments.

In other recent reports, Black officers have spoken out about the racism they’ve seen from their colleagues against Black and Latino residents of the communities they serve, or about racism they’ve personally experienced from other cops while off duty. One common refrain you hear from Black officers is that they can mostly get along fine so long as they put the “blue” before the Black.


Perhaps nowhere are these fault lines in policing more apparent than the unions. Across the country, the leadership in official police unions is overwhelmingly White, and Black officers say this is reflected in how the unions behave. In some cities, Black officers have felt so underrepresented by the traditional union that they’ve broken off and formed their own. In Little Rock, Black officers told me that while the official union always defends White officers accused of racism, it often actively opposes Black officers who allege discrimination — a sentiment echoed by other Black officers across the country. Notably, while nearly every official police union in the country endorsed Donald Trump in 2020, many Black police groups refused to join. Some withheld dues from the official unions in protest.
Black police chiefs, particularly reformers, have also faced aggressive, often ugly pushback from unions, most recently in Little Rock; Arlington, Tex.; Waterloo, Iowa; and at the Kansas Highway Patrol. Meanwhile, Black, reformist chiefs have been driven from office after union-led campaigns in Denver; Dallas; Portsmouth; Henderson, Nev.; and Lafayette, La.
Polling data also confirms that while Black and White cops may both oppose defunding or abolishing police, and may agree that police officers are overworked and often disrespected, they have wholly different perceptions of racism in their profession. A 2015 poll of Black officers in small departments in the Northeast found more than 90 percent believe there’s racial profiling within their departments. A 2017 Pew Research Center poll of Black and White officers found that 57 percent of Black officers thought fatal encounters between cops and Black and Latino people were indicative of larger problems within policing. Just 27 percent of White officers agreed. About 60 percent of White officers said the police had a good relationship with Black residents in their community, versus less than a third of Black officers. White officers were also more likely to have recently had a physical encounter with a suspect, and are much more likely to say Black people are inherently more violent, while Black officers were more likely to say their colleagues were too quick to act with force before assessing a situation.


So far, while some studies have suggested that more diverse police departments decrease the use of force and/or deadly shootings, the overall evidence is inconclusive. But leadership may matter. One recent study by an economist at Hamilton College in New York found that cities helmed by Black police chiefs had 30 percent fewer shootings by police officers. Fatal shootings by police in cities led by White chiefs were almost 50 percent higher.

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