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...When the NGO’s project leaders handed us worn-out jerrycans, shovels, and hoes to do the physically-grueling work, which lasted two days in total, I felt that invoking T. I. A. to cope with the situation—which the project leader did—was entirely reasonable. After all, no one would have had the right to complain that a shiny, yellow Caterpillar bulldozer didn’t pull up to the swamp alongside dump trucks and vacuum-powered electric hoses to get the job done within a few hours...
...when the project leader later told me that it was “impossible” for an African to adhere to schedules or to make plans ahead of time, when she said that it was “foolish” to set up an interview with the director of a microfinance program because “if it needs to happen, then it will happen on its own,” and when she concluded that the explanation was “This is Africa,” I refused to tolerate that excuse. Instead, I became incensed...
...surface, my project leader had implicitly endorsed the stereotype of the “lazy African.” Her conclusions reeked of the historically racist beliefs that the African lacks discipline, is simple-minded, and relegates his or her fate to outside sources. (Enter everyone from missionaries to hegemonic Western powers right about...
...August, the Innocence Project of Texas plans to unveil a detailed study focusing primarily on the extensive work of one Texas dog handler whose use of scent-ID techniques is under fire in the federal courts. At the heart of the study is the work of Deputy Keith Pikett, a canine officer with the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office, just southwest of Houston. The first case studied involves Calvin Lee Miller, who was charged with robbery and sexual assault after Pikett's bloodhounds alerted police to a scent on sheets that Pikett said matched a scent swipe from Miller...
Jeff Blackburn, head of the Innocence Project of Texas, has labeled the dog-scent evidence as "junk, not even junk science." He adds, "We are working on a very intense, independent investigation of Pikett's activities." Pikett, who through his lawyer has declined public comment, is being sued for civil-rights violations in federal court by Miller and Buchanek. Blackburn says the innocence team is combing Texas public records to assess Pikett's impact on other cases. In the meantime, the Innocence Project of Texas study is being supported by canine-law-enforcement experts who, while not going...