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October 12, 2016
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I attended a showing of the historical movie ‘Birth of A Nation’. I find the cast of White slave owners and their families closely mirrors today’s GOP supporters (bigots out for blood). The Slave owners attempt to erase Nat Turner, the Black hero’s legacy is much like the Grand Old Party trying to erase President Obama’s legacy by using lies and deception. I Pray the Republicans are not successful. It seems the more things change the more they stay the same.
December 20, 2014
Human Interest amazon, Barcelona, Body Swapping, Body Swapping and Race, business, Business News, Combat Racism, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, LONDON, medicine, mental-health, Race Virtual Reality, Racism, Racism Virtual Reality, research, Science, Science News, Slideshow, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Virtual Body Swapping, virtual reality 1 Comment
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The antidote to racism partly lies in empathy, or the willingness to “walk a mile in someone else’s shoes,” as the saying goes. But scientists from universities across Europe are taking the maxim one step further, providing people an opportunity to experience life in someone else’s skin by experimenting with virtual reality as a means of helping people shed racial stereotypes.
Researchers from London and Barcelona teamed up to discuss their recent experiments on virtual reality and race in an opinion piece for the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, published Dec. 15. The researchers found that if people got the chance to physically experience their own body with different skin colors (or ages and sexes), their unconscious biases against other racial groups could be diminished.
This isn’t merely a question of changing mentality or perception. The experience of “living” in different skin triggers sensory signals in the brain that allow it to expand its understanding of what a body can look like. This can “cause people to change their attitudes about others,” wrote the study’s co-researcher, Professor Mel Slater, a part-time professor of virtual environments at the University College London and research professor at the University of Barcelona.
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February 19, 2014
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Jordan Davis would have turned 19 on Sunday.
The black teen was killed in 2012 while sitting in a car with his friends outside a Jacksonville, Florida convenience store, listening to music.
That music was too loud for Michael Dunn. Following an argument over the volume, the 45-year-old man fired his gun into the carful of teenagers, killing Davis. Dunn told his fiancee the teens were playing “thug music.”
On the eve of Davis’ birthday, a mistrial was declared on the first-degree murder charge. The jury found Dunn guilty of attempted second-degree murder and a count of firing into an occupied car.
October 24, 2013
Human Interest amazon, Barneys, Barneys Lawsuit, Barneys New York, Black Voices News, business, Business News, Christian, Fashion & Beauty, Fashion Racism, Health, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, Manhattan Supreme Court, mental-health, Michael Palillo, New York Police Department, Racial Discrimination, Racial Profiling, Racism, research, Salvatore Ferragamo, Salvatore Ferragamo Belt, Science, Science News, Slideshow, technology, Technology News, travel, Trayon Christian, vacation, Video Leave a comment
UPDATE:
Barneys has posted a response on their Facebook page, providing clarification about employee participation in the incident.
Barneys New York and the New York Police Department have been slapped with a lawsuit by Trayon Christian, a college student from Queens, who was arrested at the luxury department store in April.
“His only crime was being a young black man,” Michael Palillo, Christian’s attorney, told The New York Post.
The Post reports that the 19-year-old was at the store buying a $350 Salvatore Ferragamo belt, but following the purchase, he was stopped by undercover officers that were allegedly called on by a Barneys sales clerk who believed the transaction was fraudulent.
The lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court, states that the NYC College of Technology freshman was asked by the cops: “how a young black man such as himself could afford to purchase such an expensive belt?” He was then handcuffed taken to a local precinct.
Despite showing the officers the receipt for the belt, his ID and the debit card used, “Christian was told that his identification was false and that he could not afford to make such an expensive purchase,” Palillo said.
August 9, 2013
Crime amazon, Attempted Murder, aviation, business, Business News, cars, Crime News, current-events, Everett Gant, Hate Crime, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, mental-health, politics, port saint joe, Port St. Joe, Port St. Joe Florida, Racism, Racist, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, transportation, travel, vacation, Video, Walton Henry Butler Leave a comment
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A Florida man expressed indignation after being arrested July 30 for supposedly shooting a black man in the head, explaining to police that he had “only shot a n—-r,” police said.
Walton Henry Butler, 59, allegedly shot the 32-year-old Everett Gant in the head, who visited his Port Saint Joe apartment to confront him about making racist comments to children in the apartment complex, according to the Broward Palm Beach New Times. The blog reports that Butler proceeded to eat dinner as Gant lay bleeding outside his door and cites an affidavit saying that Butler used the racial slur when questioned by the sheriff.
Butler is charged with attempted murder with a hate crime enhancement.
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October 22, 2012
Crime aviation, business, celebrities, Chicago News, current-events, entertainment, Howard Morgan Chicago, Howard Morgan Chicago Police, Howard Morgan Guilty, Howard Morgan Shot 28 Times, huffingtonpost, human-rights, Man Shot 28 Times, occupy-wall-street, politics, Racism, research, technology, transportation, travel, vacation, Video Leave a comment
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As much of the country follows the Trayvon Martin case, activists in Chicago are hoping to bring some of that attention to Howard Morgan, a former Chicago police officer who was shot 28 times by white officers — and lived to tell his side of the story.
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