News, Richard Cohen: Being Afraid of Black People Isn't Racist. (statistics, racism)

[JD59]

Washington Post op-ed writer Richard Cohen sent some people searching for pitchforks today, with a column declaring that he "can understand why Zimmerman was suspicious and why he thought Martin was wearing a uniform we all recognize." And apparently that opinion was going around among op-ed writers at major newspapers, because Jason Riley at the Wall Street Journal wrote a similar column running through black crime statistics.

Richard Cohen Shows Why Racism Makes You Do Dumb Things - Elspeth Reeve - The Atlantic Wire

[Chimuelojones]

Some people are scared of spiders. Im not. I understand that very few spiders are dangerous. Here, in my area, we have the brown recluce spider. I never just stick my hand in a box that has been stored outside or in storage. I've seen them hidding out inside.

I don't go anaphylactic on the mere sight of a spider.

If some people fear black folk...all black folk, black youth, black males...ect.; that is their Hard-wiring.

[Dumbdowndemocrats]

When the neighborhood dogs start barking at a.m. hours trouble of any color is lurking about in my hometown...and I have a black friend two doors down who feels the same way about thieves ...locked and loaded.