Word: racializing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...experience leads to the lessening of the occurrence of racial profiling, then I would find that enormously gratifying," Gates wrote in a statement on the website of the African American culture magazine The Root, of which he is editor-in-chief. "Because, in the end, this is not about me at all; it is about the creation of a society in which 'equal justice before law' is a lived reality...
...since then, the media's attention has shifted dramatically, as new details and accounts of the incident have been revealed. Crowley, who taught a police academy class on racial profiling for several years, has repeatedly stated that he would not apologize and that Gates had behaved loudly and irrationally at the scene. He has since received the full support of various police unions and a black police officer who had also been on the scene...
...psychologists have been quick to note in the aftermath of the Gates arrest, racial biases are often implicit and unconscious, and their effects insidiously creep into even the most tolerant among us. Several studies find that even when we erase prejudice from our conscious mental processing, it lingers in the older, murkier corners of our cognitive architecture. In one experiment, researchers discovered that even subjects who demonstrated no racist attitudes still had increased activity in the amygdala—a part of the brain associated with fear and emotion—when shown images of black faces, and the results...
...first, we saw the post-racial Obama, defusing the situation with a joke about how he would “get shot” if he tried to jimmy open the door of his current residence. But then he moved away from the script. His eyes narrowed, his voice grew somber, and he explained how the Cambridge police had “acted stupidly,” how the incident demonstrated that “race remains a factor in this society...
...persistent, subtle effects of implicit racial biases highlight the limits of the meritocracy. Gates’s arrest is a troubling reminder that overcoming the flaws of our society and minds requires more than talent and effort. Sometimes, try as we may, we can?...