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"It's no accident, that the results of "Doll tests", modeled after those administered by black psychologists Kenneth Bancroft Clark and his wife, Mamie Phipps Clark during the 1940's, have barely changed. At that time, the test was designed to study what the Clarks believed were the psychological effects of segregation on black children, and was used to demonstrate the damaging effects of school segregation during arguments before the Supreme Court in the 1954 landmark case, Brown vs.The Board of Education. Young "negro" children between the ages of three and seven were presented with two identical diaper clad baby dolls, varying only by skin color: one white, the other black. They were then asked questions to identify characteristics that might apply to each of the dolls: questions like, "Which is the ugly doll?" "Which is the pretty doll?" "Which one is the nice doll?" "Which is the bad doll?" "Which is the smart doll?", "Which is the stupid doll?", etc. More than 2/3rds of negro children routinely attributed negative characteristics to the black doll and positive characteristics to the white one. At the end, each child was asked to pick up the doll that looked the most like themselves. The discomfort and conflict in the faces and body language of the children who reluctantly picked up the black doll was there for all to see. The results of this 1940s experiment were heart-breaking, but none too surprising, given the saturated milieu of institutionalized racism that prevailed in America at the time. But, what's more heartbreaking, and much more surprising, is that similar doll tests administered to school children in subsequent decades have yielded almost identical results. CNN ran a television special that revealed the results of a variation on the Drs. Clark experiment in 2010. If one searches YouTube under "CNN Doll Test", you will find a number of video clips which show black children overwhelmingly attributing positive characteristics to illustrations of white or light skinned children, and negative ones to brown and black skinned children. White children, showed an even higher tendency to identify dolls in this manner. The vast majority of whites have never struggled with self-esteem issues predicated upon their race, and the results of this study, as well as similar others confirm what most people already know. What was revealing was how entrenched negative racial stereotypes were still present in white school children, even when they are presented messages that supposedly combat those beliefs. And what's revealing, is the intractable nature of low racial self-esteem among black children, even though ours is a much less segregated society, and the most overt forms of institutional racism have been outlawed.
Unfortunately, the belief that blacks are genetically intellectually inferior to whites, shows little signs of remitting. When I was in high school in the mid-70's, a white psychologist named William Shockley caused a national stir when he presented statistical "evidence" that ID tests "proved" that blacks were far less intelligent than whites, and that genetics almost entirely accounted for the discrepancies in scores. Fast forward to the late 1990s, when a book by two Harvard psychologists entitled "The Bell Curve", basically put forth the same argument, and it felt pretty much like the movie, Groundhog's Day. It should only be a matter of time before someone dusts off that long-standing axiom, dresses it up with a new set of statistics, and folds it between the pages of a new "controversial" best seller. What such studies never do is account for the effects of 101 poisonous and lingering social variables, unique to African Americans, that undoubtedly skew IQ "test results." The niggling anxiety that one really might not measure up, even though the "overt" social message now is that "blacks are every bit as smart," probably has a lot to do with score discrepancies that persist, even among middle and upper income blacks. They know that many of their white and Asian peers aren't buying it. They know they are in the position of having to "prove" themselves almost daily, and salve the hit their self-esteem takes every time some white kid says something asinine about them being "pretty smart for a black guy", or "you only got in because of affirmative action."
What I find almost comical nowadays, is the way many whites (usually conservatives) now insist that "the playing field" has been "leveled" for blacks---nay, that blacks now have the advantage!---and it is whites who are the overwhelming victims of racism in this country. They say it without the slightest hint of irony in their voices, too...."
Sure there is. Black voters traditionally vote democrat something like 89% of the time. In 2008 they voted 95% democrat. You can deny it, but the extra 6% was a big deal--not to mention a fairly high voter turnout among black voters.
Like it or not, obama got elected largely by people who expected him to fix this issue. He hasn't.
LIke the McCain-Palin ticket would have done any better.
Sure there is. Black voters traditionally vote democrat something like 89% of the time. In 2008 they voted 95% democrat. You can deny it, but the extra 6% was a big deal--not to mention a fairly high voter turnout among black voters.
Like it or not, obama got elected largely by people who expected him to fix this issue. He hasn't.
No they came out to vote to get free stuff remember free houses cars gas...how is that Hopey Changey working....
And a lot of conservatives vote GOP to reinstate jim crow. Doesn't mean it's going to happen.
More cow manure from the Left.
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