Monday, April 2, 2012

Prejudice between Minority Groups

Assumptions. Gee, I wonder if every single one of the 10% of the white individuals who share the prejudices of Latinos in this study are Republicans and Tea Partiers? It is consistent with the same bunch who deride the factual basis of race relations in this country, as playing the race card. (Yes, KR, this includes you - and it includes jerks like Rush Limpbone).
From MSNBC.com::


I will try to get back to this post later, to add links to the academic papers indicated in the interview.
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  1. dog goneApril 4, 2012 at 3:04 PM

    I'm glad you don't judge individuals by the color of their skin KR. Good for you. I don't either. Nothing I've written here does that.

    Where we differ is that I acknowledge that there is institutionalized racism. For exampl, drug use is consistent between racial groups - blacks, white, asians, latinos all engage in drug use in approximately the same precentages.

    This is also true of drug use across economic groupings. Poor people don't use drugs any more - or less - often than middle class or wealthy people.

    However, the percentage of people in prison are disproportionately represented, many times over, among blacks, and to a lesser degree, Latino and other groups in comparison to white people. Poor people are hugely more frequently incarcerated than other groups of people.

    That doesn't represent a difference in crime; the cirmes are the same in the case of non-violent drug crimes. The ONLY factor that is different is race / ethnicity.

    The same thing was true of the cases where the Ag Department discriminated so consistently against blacks, women, and in some regions, Latinos/hispanics.

    Where we both agree that it is essential to evalutate every person as an individual, in youre attempt to deny that there are instances where races are not treated equally, what you call playing the race card, you are denying what is pretty clear patterns of racial discrimination. To ignore or deny those kinds of discrimination occur is to engage in a kind of racism.

    In the case of conservatives, going further, we had Nixon's southern strategy; then there was the Reagan war on drugs....initiated at a time when drug use was steeply declining. Even before crack became a terrible problem for certain demographics, that had worked in practice to unfairly incarcerate black people. That pattern continues, despite crack having become far less widely used.

    Then there were the white supremacist groups, and entities like the John Birch society that are openly embraced at conservative events like CPAC. And there aer similar groups which actively support conservative candidates.

    So long as that is the case, while there are to their credit many conservatives, many Republicans, who are NOT racist, there is still more racism among some segments of the right than anywhere else.

    You conveniently shift the discussion to yourself as an individual, while ignoring the larger examples of racism, and racial tensions between different groups. That is dishonest KR, shame on you.

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