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Here's why it's impractical for American society to ever allow Blacks, to see any JUSTICE
Topic Started: Jul 14 2013, 05:36 PM (643 Views)
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Firstly, think deep with me. Don't reply, just reflect





Exhibit A:


Think about the concept of an American jury, used for deciding JUSTICE. Including how, mainly Caucasian judges, have overturned many niggz appeal where they filed grievance over having no Blacks or no peers, on the jury. And every time a White judge shoots it down, they use the same opinion; There's no proof that having 100% White jurors, prevented Justice from ruling over these processes.






...hmmm...


If that's true then why does that same Judge do nothing but sit there, idly watching, any Prosecutor's frantic jury-selection processes? When consisting of "intentionally & strategically remove" as many Black citizens as possible, from the jury pool? Continually!



...hmmmm...
Edited by The SOLE Controller, Jul 14 2013, 05:39 PM.
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All blacks?

Or just the dark skinned ones??
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SUA...guess what?


I got a new White chic





...and she's > 122 lbs.


Here name is Jenny.


I told her I reeeeally toyed with passing on her, but she had me hooked after this display:
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Posted ImageJennifer L. Hochschild
H.L. Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Harvard College Professor
Government Department; CGIS: 1737 Cambridge St.; Cambridge, MA 02138
(email too!)



The Skin Color Paradox and the American Racial Order

Citation:
Hochschild JL, Weaver V. The Skin Color Paradox and the American Racial Order. Social Forces. 2007;86(2):643-670.



ABSTRACT
              
Dark-skinned Blacks in the United States have lower socioeconomic status, more punitive relationships with the criminal justice system, diminished prestige, and less likelihood of holding elective office compared with their lighter counterparts.  This phenomenon of “colorism” both occurs within the African American community and is expressed by outsiders, and most Blacks are aware of it.  Nevertheless, Blacks’ perceptions of discrimination, belief that their fates are linked, or attachment to their race almost never vary by skin color.  We identify this disparity between treatment and political attitudes as “the skin color paradox,” and use it as a window into the politics of race in the United States over the past half-century.

            Using national surveys, we explain the skin color paradox as follows: Blacks’ commitment to racial identity overrides the potential for skin color discrimination to have political significance.  That is, because most Blacks see the fight against racial hierarchy as requiring their primary allegiance, they do not see or do not choose to express concern about the internal hierarchy of skin tone.   Thus dark-skinned Blacks’ widespread experience of harm has no political outlet— which generates the skin color paradox.

            The article concludes by asking how much concern the skin color paradox really warrants. Without fully resolving that question, we note that policies designed to solve the problem of racial hierarchy are not helpful to and may even make worse the problem of skin color hierarchy within the Black population.

 

 

Send correspondence to the first author (Jennifer Hochschild, Hochschild@gov.harvard.edu).  We are grateful to Traci Burch, Ian Haney-Lopez, David Hollinger, Robert Lieberman, Keith Maddox, Melissa Nobles, and Jim Sidanius for comments on this manuscript or its earlier incarnations.

 

What is really crucial behind the color point is class; the implication that light color goes with higher status and the Negroid appearance with lower status, is what makes these characteristics so important.
(Davis, A. et al. 1946): 137
 
So I sit here as a light skin Black woman and I sit here to tell you that I am Black.  That people who are my color in this country will always be treated as Black…. We who are Black have got to say ‘look, we are people of color, and we are readily identified.  Any discrimination against one of us is discrimination against another.’

--Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, 1997

 

Well-to-do, fair-skinned kids in the neighborhood weren’t allowed to play with him and they regularly taunted him about his color, Jones says.... “That’s been a dominant force in my life. Having lived through those experiences gave me the desire to fight for the disadvantaged.”

--(Robinson-English 2005)

 




In September 2005, a CNN news anchor remarked that the most devastated victims of Hurricane Katrina “are so poor and they are so Black” (Blitzer 2005).  He presumably was referring to the fact that most displaced people were African American residents of New Orleans.  But behind his comment was a physical fact about the people appearing on television sets across the country; those left behind were the darkest as well as the poorest of their race. Commentators have spoken endlessly of their poverty--but beyond this comment, not at all of their complexion.

            Blitzer’s remarks were prescient; as the first epigraph suggests, racial minorities with dark skin in the United States have been disproportionately disadvantaged for centuries.1 Relative to their lighter-skinned counterparts, dark-skinned Blacks have lower levels of education, income, and job status; they are less likely to own homes or to marry; and dark-skinned blacks’ prison sentences are longer. Dark-skin discrimination occurs within as well as across races (Turner 1995).  Some evidence suggests, in fact, that intra-racial disparities are as detrimental to a person’s life chances as are disparities traditionally associated with racial divisions (Hughes and Hertel 1990).

Skin color is associated with individuals’ preferences as well as their outcomes.  With some exceptions, most Americans prefer lighter to darker skin aesthetically, normatively, and culturally.  Film-makers, novelists, advertisers, modeling agencies, matchmaking websites – all demonstrate the power of a fair complexion, along with straight hair and Eurocentric facial features, to appeal to Americans.2  Complexion and appearance are also related to how voters evaluate candidates and who wins elections.

Given that skin color is connected with attitudes and life outcomes in myriad ways, one would expect it also to be associated with political beliefs and identities.  To our knowledge almost no one has examined this expectation.  We did so, and found a surprise: skin tone seems almost entirely unrelated to the political views of ordinary residents of the United States.  We call this anomaly the skin color paradox...

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on dat verdict:


every picture tells a story.... just look at the kids eyes!!

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then again see below.....


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would have been nice if everyday was like this: i know am dreaming

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utb,affinity, redg ...

Funny but non of you would be happy if he had killed your son or brother or your loved one. Non of you and you're lying to yourself if you think morality won tonight.

- keenangry, USA, 13/7/2013 22:55


exactly my thought too



Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly forever. Conventional tragedy is too easy. The hero dies and we feel a purging of the emotions. A real tragedy takes place in a corner, in an untidy spot

W. H. Auden
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beserker
Jul 14 2013, 07:10 PM
Funny but non of you would be happy if he had killed your son or brother or your loved one.

Who is happy that GZ killed TM?
Edited by Affinity, Jul 14 2013, 10:25 PM.
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Jul 14 2013, 10:25 PM
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Jul 14 2013, 07:10 PM
Funny but non of you would be happy if he had killed your son or brother or your loved one.

Who is happy that GZ killed TM?
Based off some of your post and the fact you won't acknowledge that TM was profiled and wasn't doing anything suspicious or looked like a drug addict....the shoe is fitting you aff....


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Jul 14 2013, 10:25 PM
beserker
Jul 14 2013, 07:10 PM
Funny but non of you would be happy if he had killed your son or brother or your loved one.

Who is happy that GZ killed TM?
Not you.

You're what they called "overjoyed" about him killing TM, no doubt indeed.
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Jul 14 2013, 10:25 PM
beserker
Jul 14 2013, 07:10 PM
Funny but non of you would be happy if he had killed your son or brother or your loved one.

Who is happy that GZ killed TM?
u failed to understand this simple fact....


``Our national collective expectation of equal justice is based on our feeling of morality—not legality. We want the morality of a situation to match the criminality. That is often not the result in our court system. Trayvon Martin had the right to be afraid, the right to fight a stranger who was armed and prepared to use deadly force against him. Trayvon Martin had a right to stand his ground. That is our moral position. Racial disparity in killings that are found justifiable demonstrates that black life is not as valued as white life in this country. That is our reality.""
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Would it help you all if I made an effort to type slower and use smaller words from now on?
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