Unexpected ...
Posted on 09/17/2014 10:12:23 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
America is pushing forward in a post-racial society, blind to skin color. That's the conventional wisdom.
But the research of Jennifer Eberhardt, the Bay Area's newest and only recipient of the famed MacArthur fellowship, the "genius grants," has proved otherwise.
She has found that skin color prejudices the perceptions of jurors, police officers and even the ordinary student who volunteers in research at Stanford University.
Black people, especially those with very dark skin and kinky hair, are more likely to be linked to crime, handed stiffer punishments or even sentenced to death than lighter-appearing individuals, according to her research.
Eberhardt is among two dozen scientists, scholars, artists and civic-minded people to reap the $625,000 windfall, announced Wednesday morning by the MacArthur Foundation.
Other 2014 winners include an engineer who is unraveling the effects of soot on climate and human health, a computer scientist fueling a revolution in cryptography, a poet who is translating modern Arab poetry into English and an artist transforming a long-neglected neighborhood in Houston into an arts and community venue.
The fellowships, awarded to those with a record of tenacity, imagination and risk-taking, are meant to encourage creative development into fresh new fields. Like Eberhardt's current study of footage from Oakland police officers' "body camera" videos..
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
We need a "genius" to tell us that?
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WTF, over.
Genius, my **s.
Guess it’s long bast time for Revolution II.
Are they also more likely to have committed the crime? or does that not matter at all?
Oops, I pulled a Biden...that’s long past, not long bast.
Although long bast has a nice ring to it.
Stanford liberal educator...need more be said?
that’s strange, you would think that when you look at someone you wouldn’t even notice what color they are.
kind of like in the movie “no time for sergeants” with andy Griffith. he’s was told to treat wacs the same as men. and when he sees a wac he tell his friends “ ah caint tell if’n it’s a man or ah woman, all ah seez is them strips on thar arm”
“I’m about to throw my hands in the air and give up-—
Be careful,you might get shot,like Little Mikey./s
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You're forgetting that she is a GENIUS
Us idiots can't begin to comprehend her wisdom
Hey,maybe I can get one of these grants for myself! ;-)
They could have spread that nifty sum of cash around to the demonstrators in Ferguson and done some good. Another race baiting professor’s racist study won’t accomplish nearly as much.
With friends like that, you don’t need enemies.
Atten-hut!
Pure genius
Is this a reflection of how little true genius there is nowadays? Is there no one in medicine researching cures for life-threatening diseases? Maybe the MacArthur Foundation should take a hiatus from awarding grants until they find some real geniuses, instead of just giving them to people doing politically correct work.
I think the MacArthur Foundation is old Rockefeller money, so PC it is.
Maybe the Nobel people should think of doing the same.
What did Jesse Jackson say (years ago) about Black youts walking behind him?
Another genius?
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