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Police Power and Racial Tensions in Ferguson, Missouri

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Harvard has done a recent study that allows people to measure their subconscious prejudices through an online test. You can take it on a variety of issues (race, age, weight, sex, etc.) and it does a good job of showing how our minds work and associate positive feelings with some characteristics, and negative feelings with others. It points out that much of our prejudices are subconscious, and that we unable or unwilling to admit such feelings and prejudices. Here is the link.

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

I'm posting this here because after I took a couple of these tests I wondered about D. Wilson and some of his possible prejudices. Would the situation have gone down differently if Michael Brown was White? The short answer is that it probably would have changed the outcome to some extent. To what extent, and how much fault we can place on people due to their subconscious attitudes towards others (prejudices that we all have, mind you) is a difficult question to answer. Take the test and I bet you will be surprised at some biases and prejudices that you didn't know you had.
 
AlaskanAssassin said:
Harvard has done a recent study that allows people to measure their subconscious prejudices through an online test. You can take it on a variety of issues (race, age, weight, sex, etc.) and it does a good job of showing how our minds work and associate positive feelings with some characteristics, and negative feelings with others. It points out that much of our prejudices are subconscious, and that we unable or unwilling to admit such feelings and prejudices. Here is the link.

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

I'm posting this here because after I took a couple of these tests I wondered about D. Wilson and some of his possible prejudices. Would the situation have gone down differently if Michael Brown was White? The short answer is that it probably would have changed the outcome to some extent. To what extent, and how much fault we can place on people due to their subconscious attitudes towards others (prejudices that we all have, mind you) is a difficult question to answer. Take the test and I bet you will be surprised at some biases and prejudices that you didn't know you had.
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Those were fun. I guess I'm a closet hater of gays, Muslims, blacks, Asians, and fat people.
 
The buzz around the area is that cop that choked out the black guy in NYC on camera just received a no bill from the Grand Jury.

That is ****ing unbelievable.
 
candrew said:
The buzz around the area is that cop that choked out the black guy in NYC on camera just received a no bill from the Grand Jury.

That is ****ing unbelievable.
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Agreed. I thought that cop would be charged with something for sure. Hopefully things don't get violent.
 
nightmare3983 said:
Agreed. I thought that cop would be charged with something for sure. Hopefully things don't get violent.
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I'm sure they'll be some but the one major difference between this and Ferguson is there wasn't the polarization of opinion along racial lines regarding the incident. Pretty much everyone, black, white, whatever felt this cop should be facing some serious jail time - except the jurors and the prosecutor, apparently.
 
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