wrote:
Racism is still a big issue. If anybody thinks otherwise,he/she's
blind.
I am multiethnic Black,White,Hispanic,Native American. I am an
idealist in that I wish we all get along,love each other,and treat
each other like fellow human beings. However,I am a realist in that I
see that racism is still a serious problem.
My first time being called the n'word was on my 9th birthday by a blue
eyed blonde gal who I played with and went to school with. The last
time that I was called the n'word was in 2004 in a chatroom on yahoo
after I had confronted the white guy for calling arabs, sand-n'words.
I was furious. What made me more furious is that a lot of people in
the chatroom thought I was overreacting and that it shouldn't bother
me.
In 1991, I also knew a white navy doctor who believed that multiethnic
people like me are biologically psychological messed up because of our
mixtures. The sad thing is that I even believed in it for awhile.
It was mainly white kids that called me "retard" when I was in special
education for my Dyslexia,Dyspraxia.
Retard,n'word are the 2 words that anger me the most.
I agree with a lot of what Reverend Wright said. I disagree with him
about the AIDS being created for blacks though.
A lot of White ministers have said things so controversial and
bigoted,they don't get condemned like a black preacher who focus on
the racism issue and points out that racism is still alive and well.
"The United States is doing little to comply with an international
agreement to end racial discrimination and has downplayed widespread
racism, charged an American Civil Liberties Union report released
yesterday."
http://www.dailynewstribune.com/news/x773671370
DEKALB, Ill.---- Black students attending Northern Illinois University
say they feel unsafe after racial slurs and references to shootings
earlier this year at Virginia Tech were found scrawled on a bathroom
wall.
The university, which was closed Monday as a security precaution, is
scheduled to reopen Tuesday.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/691002,niu121107.article
Racial microaggressions add up, researchers say
http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/820146.html
African-Americans are 10 times more likely than whites to serve prison
terms for drug offenses, even though the rate of drug use doesn't
differ significantly between the two groups, a new national study
says.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07345/840756-85.stm?
cmpid=localstate.xml
Overlooking racism may lead to undiagnosed mental health disorders
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-09/vu-orm091503.php
Being African American increases a mentally ill individual’s chance
of
being diagnosed with schizophrenia and reduces the likelihood of that
person’s receiving an affective disorder diagnosis. While data have
pointed to this fact for several years, psychiatrists are beginning to
assess the ramifications of this finding for blacks and how it adds a
host of complicating factors to their treatment.
http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/36/10/17
CONCLUSIONS: The study suggests the possibility of racial and other
disparities in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with
schizophrenia and comorbid affective and anxiety disorders. Although
various causal explanations are plausible, all point toward the need
for enhanced cross-cultural competence at all levels of mental health
care, especially in the diagnosis and treatment of comorbid
psychiatric illnesses.
http://psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/52/9/1216
Causes, Effects, and Resolutions for Misdiagnosis of
African Americans in the Mental Health Sector
http://freednerd.wordpress.com/2006/10/
The (Mis)Diagnosis of Mental Disorder in African Americans
Harold W. Neighbors, Associate Professor, Department of Health
Behavior and Health Education, School of Public
Health, The University of Michigan
www.rcgd.isr.umich.edu/prba/perspectives/winter1997/hneighbors.pdf
Clinical Depression And African Americans
http://www.health.am/ab/more/clinical_depression_and_african_americans
/
Dec 1, 1999 | It took only a few weeks on the job for William Lawson
to notice that there was something very strange going on. The
psychiatrist had just joined the staff of the John L. McClellan
Veterans Hospital in North Little Rock, Ark., and already he had seen
patient after patient -- dozens of them, as it turned out -- with the
same ill-fitting diagnosis. All African-American men, all veterans of
combat in the Vietnam War, they suffered from terrifying nightmares,
gut-twisting anxiety, flashbacks of fighting -- classic symptoms of
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Yet they'd been assigned a very
different condition: schizophrenia.
http://dir.salon.com/story/books/it/1999/12/01/schizo?sid=476003
Are schools failing black boys?
Eight percent of the children in America’s public school are black
boys, yet their representation in the nation’s special education
classes is nearly twice that: 15 percent. African American males are
also three times likely as white males to be enrolled in special
education programs for "mildly to moderately mentally retarded,"
according to a 1992 report released by the Office of Civil Rights.
http://www.terry.uga.edu/~dawndba/4500FailingBlkBoys.html
The purpose of this research was to evaluate the degree to which Black
students are overrepresented and misplaced in special education, as a
result of current testing and placement practices, insufficient
parental knowledge of special education rights and responsibilities,
and the need for more cultural diversity training for teachers. The
two subjects interviewed were a special education teacher/chairperson
and a principal; both employed in the same school. A class of special
education students was unknowingly observed. Interview responses show
little satisfaction with the current methods of placing Black children
into special education programs. The observations demonstrated that
the majority of the children did not need to be placed there. The use
of Black psychologists, increased parental support and knowledge, a
non-biased test for placement and increased preservice and inservice
training was recommended. http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/peterz1.html
Minority parents want prompt diagnosis of child autism
In Hartford, Merva Jackson, executive director of the nonprofit
African Caribbean American Parents of Children With Disabilities, said
she believes that many black children with autism-spectrum disorders
are misdiagnosed as having defiant, oppositional or behavioral
problems.
"I think it's just a lack of knowledge" on the part of black families
about what autism is, said Jackson, as well as cultural
insensitivities or racism on the part of doctors and other
professionals who evaluate children.
http://www.dailytidings.com/2007/0525/stories/0525_bp_autism.php
According to the federal Household Survey, "most current illicit drug
users are white. There were an estimated 9.9 million whites (72
percent of all users), 2.0 million blacks (15 percent), and 1.4
million Hispanics (10 percent) who were current illicit drug users in
1998." And yet, blacks constitute 36.8% of those arrested for drug
violations, over 42% of those in federal prisons for drug violations.
African-Americans comprise almost 58% of those in state prisons for
drug felonies; Hispanics account for 20.7%.
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/racepris.htm
Job applicants with African-American sounding names are far less
likely to get a callback as are similarly qualified "white"
candidates, according to researchers at the University of Chicago and
MIT, who submitted 5,000 bogus resumes in response to job ads. Half
the resumes bore stereotypical African-American names such as Latonya
and Tyrone; half sported traditionally Anglo names like Kristin and
Brad.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/rss/pto-20030430-000001.html
Can a 'Black' Name Affect Job Prospects?
Can a Black-Sounding Name Hurt Your Career Prospects?
But capable doesn't always matter. A job recruiter for Fortune 500
companies in northern California revealed an ugly secret."There is
rampant racism everywhere. And people who deny that are being naïve,"
said the recruiter, who spoke on the condition her name would not be
used. http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Story?id=124232&page=3
Thomas is one of eight black women suing the department store for
racial discrimination after she allegedly was told that Dillard's
beauty salons charge black customers more than whites because of the
"kinky" nature of "ethnic" hair.
http://www.courttv.com/people/2006/0425/dillardssalon_ctv.html
Black Customers File Discrimination Lawsuit Against Waffle House
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/georgia/news-article.aspx?
storyid=31028
(CNN) -- Most Americans, white and black, see racism as a lingering
problem in the United States, and many say they know people who are
racist, according to a new poll.
But few Americans of either race -- about one out of eight -- consider
themselves racist.
And experts say racism has evolved from the days of Jim Crow to the
point that people may not even recognize it in themselves.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/12/racism.poll/index.html
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush acknowledged persistent racism in
America and lamented the Republican Party's bumpy relations with black
voters as he addressed the NAACP's annual convention Thursday for the
first time in his presidency.
"I understand that racism still lingers in America," Bush told the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "It's a
lot easier to change a law than to change a human heart. And I
understand that many African-Americans distrust my political party."
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8IVQT000&show_article=1
The researchers performed fMRIs on 13 white participants. During the
scans, participants viewed a series of faces -â€" some of which could
be
consciously seen and some of which were presented so quickly that
participants did not report seeing them. The researchers found that
for the ultra-brief subliminal images, amygdala activity was greater
in response to black faces than to white faces, suggesting that at
least initially, black faces provoked a stronger emotional reaction
than white faces.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-12/hu-bar120804.php
Stereotypes of black people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotypes_of_Blacks
Despite the fact that half of all blacks say they have experienced
discrimination in the past 30 days, whites persist in believing that
we know their realities better than they do, and that black complaints
of racism are the rantings of oversensitive racial hypochondriacs.
Blacks, we seem to believe, make mountains out of molehills, for Lord
knows we would never make a molehill out of a mountain!
http://www.guerrillanews.com/threads/13568/why_whites_think_blacks_hav
e_no_problems
Being Black and Beautiful Against Stereotypes
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/entertainment/index/beautiful
042507
Affirmative Action: Who Benefits?
http://www.apa.org/pubinfo/affirmaction.html
No Surprise - Skin Tone Study Reveals Preference for Light-Skinned
Employees
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/skintonestudy925
WASHINGTON (NNPA)- Some thought color discrimination among African
Americans had pretty much blown away with the black cultural
revolution of the 1960s and 1970s.
But according to sociologists, academics and other measures of the
nation's social barometer, the issue is still rooted in day-to-day
life. http://www.frostillustrated.com/atf.php?sid=2381
Failed party promotion underscores color divide between US black women
Yasmine Toney describes herself as a "dark-skinned sista." So when she
heard about a recent club promotion in Detroit, allowing all-night
free admission to black women with fair or light skin, she was
incensed.
"It's offensive," Toney said. "It continues a negative stereotype."
"I'm perceived to be aggressive, assertive, attitude-having ... a lot
of things, because my complexion is darker," said the 24-year-old
receptionist.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/19/america/NA-GEN-US-Skin-
Tone.php
Obviously Wright made some true statements. I feel that a lot of
people are blind to the reality of what blacks(especially darkskinned
blacks) still deal with in regards to
racism,discrimination,bigotry,and mistreatment. When a black preacher
points it out,they are seen as crazy,racist,and God knows what else. I
have a big problem with that. I am very concerned about how people can
be so naive and be in denial about racism. We still have a long way to
go to achieve Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's dream.
I want to reiterate that all racism,discrimination,bigotry,and
mistreatment is wrong......it doesn't matter if you're
Black,White,Native American,Asian,Pacific Islander,or whatever a
person's background is.
another thing
Bill O'Reilly talking to Senator McCain
about
WHITE CHRISTIAN MALE POWER STRUCTURE?????
WTF????????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDSofxxabMA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBmkvLEhNvs&feature=related
I want the White Christian male power structure gone!
replace it with Multiracial,Multifaith,bigender power structure.
that represents all races,all religions,both sexes
Raymond N. Andrews
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