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This was stated on 20/20 the other night by Diane Sawyer. Yes, she who works for ABC did reiterate those exact words...that African Americans are 8 times more likely to risk their life saving another person than a white person would. What is ABC trying to accomplish here? To create racial division? One thing I noticed, ABC is basing their information 'According to aUnpublished Study'. The person quoted by USA Today in the link I posted below was Dr. Philip Zimbardo from the same organization where 20/20 got their statistic. So the question is.................do you believe this to be true, that blacks are 8 times more heroic than whites?
[According to an unpublished study by the Heroic Imagination Project, blacks are 8 times more likely to perform heroic acts than Caucasian men, and Hispanics are 2 times more likely to perform heroic acts than Caucasian men.]
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According to a study cited by ABC's 20/20, black people are eight times more likely than white people to perform acts of heroism
In my experience, blacks are more understanding and respectful of others feelings than whites. They can have a preconceived notion and then when a different perspective is explained, they tend to respect it.
Just my experience.
That has been my experience too, with exceptions to the rule on both sides.
This was stated on 20/20 the other night by Diane Sawyer. Yes, she who works for ABC did reiterate those exact words...that African Americans are 8 times more likely to risk their life saving another person than a white person would. What is ABC trying to accomplish here? To create racial division? One thing I noticed, ABC is basing their information 'According to aUnpublished Study'. The person quoted by USA Today in the link I posted below was Dr. Philip Zimbardo from the same organization where 20/20 got their statistic. So the question is.................do you believe this to be true, that blacks are 8 times more heroic than whites?
Many blacks are spiritual people and as a percentage of the population they might be more likely to be heroic, why not?
White liberals would cut and run faster than you can say "hand out" IMO.
If blacks on the average are more poor than whites..I would assume that YES blacks would be more heroic - who is more likely to come to your aid- A rich man or a poor man?.................Wealthy people turn a blind eye to anything that is not in their best interest or may have risk that they can avoid- They are not as down to earth and human as poor folks.
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