http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/02/us/ac360-race-study/index.html?hpt=hp_c2


Interesting article.

 

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A 30-something white woman made "asian eyes" by pulling at the corners of her eyes the other day as my son and I were walking in to the store.

White people are the problem, always have been.


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My son is 4, and half-korean. The fat, white-trash slob was directing her ignorance and idiocy at him.

 

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It's because your average black kid will be more likely to push someone off a swing than a white kid, even if it's a minority of them doing it. Nice black kids will readily acknowledge this and this is why they don't mind playing with white kids.

 

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Can't deny that. White people have an extremely high concentration of stupid/evil people who are relatively wealthy and mobile even if the majority of them are not bad.

 

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"The study found that black children's optimism about interracial friendships unfortunately fades by adolescence. Killen and her team also tested 13-year-old children and showed the teens similar pictures designed to be ambiguous.


While black children start out positive, by age 13 they become as pessimistic as white kids. Dr. Killen says experiences of rejection and the harsh realities of race relations most likely explain the trend."


That's the sad part.


Also, another sad part is that this acted like a bat signal for dae_trist and now it will be hard to get him to go away again.

Damn, that didn't take long.

The whole "race" thing is mostly cosmetic and cultural. I find it hard to treat asians as a different race. Might as well treat eastern europeans as a different race.


I don't think the article even mentioned them.

 

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Yeah, it has nothing to do with the fact that black kids are more likely to need to be disciplined in school and are more likely to be violent. You are living in a bubble if you don't pick up on this obvious fact. This is something every teacher picks up on.

 

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In America there is race and then there is relations between American black and white people. The latter is more complicated than simple race relations. You can actually do some interesting tests to show this by looking at the different reactions white people have to recent black immigrants and african americans whose families have been here a long time.

Pat Moyihan suggested that "the issue of race could benefit from a period of 'benign neglect'. When I watch my kids grow up and the friends they had, of all races, and think about my childhood in Texas surrounded by racists, I wonder if Pat was on to something. Raising my kids, we never really spoke about the issue, and in turn they never really seemed out of place around people of other races. Do we as parents teach racism into our children by trying to relive our pasts? I dunno.

 

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