Posted on 12/25/2014 8:26:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Baltimore — More than 500 protesters marched from Empowerment Temple Church on Primrose Avenue north on Reisterstown Road to Reisterstown Road Plaza for "Black Lives Matter Sunday." On Reisterstown Road, near the entrance to the shopping center, the protesters formed a circle and many laid down to stage a die-in to show solidarity with Michael Brown.
CHICAGO — Everyone understands that words matter. Observers of my writing know that I hopscotch my way through racial and ethnic labels quite a bit, using the conventions of my source materials whenever possible so as to not tinge my point with an easily misperceived term.
But labels can be landmines. They can be perfectly acceptable to some in a particular group and at the same time deeply insult others. As it turns out, which racial label is used in communicating neutral information can also have a wide-ranging impact on those who are taking in descriptive information about a group or a person.
In a recent study — “A rose by any other name?: The consequences of subtyping ‘African-Americans’ from ‘Blacks’” — researchers Erika Hall, Katherine Phillips and Sarah Townsend found that these two racial labels have a disparate impact on how minority social groups are perceived by whites.
The researchers conducted four distinct studies in the realms of employment, media and criminal justice to determine the perceptions of the two labels in different contexts.
The data they collected point to whites believing that the label “Black” evokes a mental representation of a person with lower socioeconomic status, education, positivity, competence and warmth than the label “African-American.” And whites “will react more negatively” toward “Blacks” than toward “African-Americans.”(continued)
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That protest was “undoubtedly” about the 10 blacks shot by other blacks on the South and West sides of Chicago between Christmas eve and noon on Christmas.
Must've used Common Core math.
Given the picture I guess we could call them layabouts. /s
Yeah, but “about” what? LOL
Blacks use more labels than you can imagine.
Blue Gummer, High Yellow, Redbone
Shows insecurity on their part. I don’t care how people label me.
“Good” hair, “passing,” “bad” hair, Aunt Hagar, coal scuttle blonde, etc., etc.
Pedal to the metal, man.
We all must be pigeonholed in the name of diversity!
Heaven forbid we should all be the same.
Layin’ ‘round the shack ‘til the mail train gets back...
Neither do I.
Whatever happened to the good ‘ol “negro” term?
Just asking.
It is ridiculous.
Maybe stealing Air Jordans will help..
Most of the people here have those “job” things, so they can’t “protest,” riot, loot or fight with cops willy-nilly.
Negro was to scientific and without bias.
Obama is no Negro, he is Mulatto at best, and raised as a privileged White boy.
Caucasian? WTF that? Maybe I’m from the western isles
My black friend says those in the inner city are basically trapped, they need to get out of there, it be LA, Baltimore, Chicago, they need to get out to open spaces. I agree, the biggest trap is the inner city.
His father was NOT an immigrant to the United States. Barack Obama Sr. was a "Transient Alien" because he did NOT intend on residing in the United States permanently.
CORRECTION: Barack Obama, the first 
My black friend says those in the inner city are basically trapped, they need to get out of there, it be LA, Baltimore, Chicago, they need to get out to open spaces. I agree, the biggest trap is the inner city.”
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“....they need to get out to open spaces....”
Well, that works for some. But, for many and possibly most, you can take the person out of the inner city but you can’t take the inner city out of the person. That is an unpleasant truth that many do not want to hear. I’ve seen this happen in both the Baltimore and DC suburbs. I think that “culture” and peer pressure is not allowing personal change to happen for many who might originally desired it.
In the future, the words of the old song may prove prophetic....”...THE WORLD IS A GHETTO...”.
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