Posted on 07/19/2007 12:10:38 PM PDT by flutters
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- In a study co-authored by an Ohio State professor, whites were asked how much money they'd want if they had to live the rest of their lives as blacks.
The typical answer was about 15-hundred dollars.
Compare that to the one million dollars the same people said they'd need to swear off T-V for the remainder of their lives.
Psychology professor Philip Mazzocco from Ohio State's Mansfield campus says the findings suggest whites aren't bothered by the idea of being black. He says whites may be ignorant of the difficulties many blacks still face because of their skin color.
They must have polled “Poor white trailer park trash”.......
Skin color is probably the _least_ important thing.
Most of the difficulties I see people have due to the color of their skin...is typically self-imposed.
No thanks, I like driving, shopping, etc, without constantly being a suspect.
You beat me to it....Where was this survey taken?...An Arkansas trailor park?
Unless you are trying to get into college or receive govt benefits. In that case skin color is very important.
Yeah, if you are talking about the poor folk living in the ghetto. Lots of bad choices there, but I had a bunch of well of black friends in prep school, and they were hassled purely because of their skin color.
Wow - this sounds like a very scientific study. Maybe not quite as scientific as the latest CNN online poll, but pretty close.
Can I pick Denzel Washington’s life?
Hassled because of their skin color??? The myth that only white people are racist is baloney.
I’d say, A psych prof with to much time on his hands....
how much money would a black person take to become white?
What kind of stupid, idiotic study is this anyway? Good grief!
What is the bid for Tiger Woods life?
Most of the problems blacks face have little to NOTHING to do with their skin color.
Their skin color doesn’t cause them to walk out into traffic pulling up their falling down pants and then glare at drivers who nearly run them over for idiotically stepping out in front of them.
One time blacks were involuntary slaves.. now many are voluntarily slaves.. Their ancestors are rolling over in their graves.
Ask Michael Jackson.
Imagine the look on Jesse Jackson’s and Al Sharptons faces when they read about it in the NYTimes (and there are many more who would be just as upset).
That alone would be worth it, that’s the cost of four good ball game tickets, or four Rolling Stones tix, or two Barbra Streisand concert seats.
Maybe the professor is ignorant of the fact that most people, including white ones, don't judge a person by their skin color.
“whites may be ignorant”
says it all.
/s
I’d cough up fifteen-hundred bucks if it guaranteed that academic jackasses would stop these foolish studies.
Yea... I know the feeling. I went to school in what has become a predominately black college and got the same treatment. Come to think of it... I also had to contend with getting overlooked for grants, jobs and other perks because of my skin color.
Thwt’s because quite honestly, an educated black person has an advantage over a white person with the same education, due to preferential hiring, preferential contracts, and everything else.
I was thinking it should be about Tree Fitty.
Obviously this dim bulb asked his class......
That question would be deemed racist.
Ever spoken to a white person hassled because of the color of their skin?
I’d trade my 7 years of college and law school (and one-bedroom condo to show for it) for 50-Cent’s life. I’d even take the 9 bullets.
This will take a little time here.
So you've bought into the Driving While Black propaganda too?
Another reason to hate the Ohio State Buttguys.
Obama.sosoma.mymama had his choice and look at what he picked.
Maybe the couples know that persistent hard work with positive attitude pays off.
Bingo! Just a fact, Jack.
Wonder who paid for this scholarly research. This kind of crap is what college professors get paid to crank out?
Wonder what they thought of their “friends?”
I know one White who won’t answer stupid hypothetical questions for less than $100.
If I accept the $1,500, is whitey indemnified from paying me reparations?
Cunning.
Shouldn’t the question be, “How much money would a Black Person pay to be White?”
Where but in America can you be born a poor Black boy and die a rich White woman?
“Unless you are trying to get into college or receive govt benefits. In that case skin color is very important.”
I couldn’t agree more. I hope, in my kids lifetime, a pill comes out that changes their race from white to black, and then back again.
College is expensive, and hard to get into, unless of course you are of a ‘minority of interest’ and trying to get into an impacted educational institution.
Were my kids black, and not whiter than white, they may have a fighting shot at a) getting in with less than a 4.0 and a 1600 SAT, and b) paying for it.
Sadly, its got to be black, because Asians aren’t getting any breaks anymore either. To colleges, Asian is majority status.
So, when you factor in the welfare, the affirmative action, the occasional Jessie Jackson college scholorship when you falsely accuse a college sports team of rape, this means we are all paid up and can forget about that “reparations” nonsense?
Liberals say that “racism” is a “power” phenomenon. Therefore, in that blacks as a whole lack “power”, they cannot be by definition “racist”. Don’t you just love how liberals frame PC definitions for you. Katie Couric may believe this too.
More snarky than cunning.
Willie Cunningham, local radio personality, calls it right...it has nothing to do with race, and everything to do with “culture”. A man’s skin has nothing to do with acting stupid, blaming others, and failing to strive for greatness...but if your culture teaches you that those things are “normal”, then your culture is bankrupt, broken, and in need of fixing. And if you are foolish enough to have these facts staring you in the face and insist on looking the other way, it’s not your skin color that will keep you poor and stupid.
Absolutely. Getting pregnant before 18 and raising kids without support of missing father.
BTW, Fox's website had an article that was just appalling. It says that 80% of black women over the age of 40 are overweight. And half of those overweight black women are obese.
75 Percent of U.S. Adults Will Be Overweight by 2015, Study Says
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