Racial stereotyping, love it or leave it.
\nA test established some months ago that I have a modest preference for Black versus White people, based on assigning the value judgments “Good” and “Bad” to race-specific facial images.
\nAt the time, I chalked this up to living in a mixed-race neighborhood with nice people, but yesterday, while listening to KKJZ, the #1 jazz radio station in the US, a deeper set of reasons surfaced.
\nGood \/ Bad
\nMartin Luther King \/ Bernard Law, the Inquisition, the Magdalene Sisters
\nColin Powell \/ the Bulger boys and George W. Bush
\nMiles Davis, Coltrane \/ the America-firsters who have, unfortunately, co-opted Country music
\nKunte Kinte \/ Bull Connor
\nRush Limbaugh \/ Thomas Sowell, Callie Crossley
\nTiger Woods, Randy Moss, Bill Russell \/ the screaming, drunken hoardes at major sports venues
\nBravery, courage, defeating the odds, family loyalty \/ privilege, cruelty, taking advantage, sociopathy, child abuse
\nBased on how it used to be, if these associations were a majority view, it would be a public perception flip of no small consequence.
\nIt might even help to explain the remarkable ascendance of a certain candidate for President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Racial stereotyping, love it or leave it. A test established some months ago that I have a modest preference for Black versus White people, based on assigning the value judgments “Good” and “Bad” to race-specific facial images. At the time, … Continue reading