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#racism#discrimination#racial inequality#social justice#civil rights#systemic racism#racial bias#racial prejudice#racial discrimination#racial justice#twitter#stupid people
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Number of disproportionately Black and Brown people arrested last year for fare evasion on the NYC subway: 1,897
Number of white men arrested for strangling a Black man to death, caught on video, on an NYC subway train full of witnesses: 0
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#eric adams#daniel penny#jordan neely#police#blacklivesmatter#two americas#defund the police#nypd#mynypd#racism#structural racism#double standards#racial bias#benevolent racism
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Affirmative action was never about picking a black person for a college based on just being black. It doesn't "take a spot" from deserving white people.
It acknowledges that unconscious bias will lead people to overwhelmingly discount POC candidates who are more than qualified. Their race is used to color all their accomplishments, and usually negatively. Also that race and racism affect how much access to a good education they have. Affirmative action attempted to negate that bias and allow access to POC who Are qualified and deserve a spot.
Meanwhile, without affirmative action, more of the most pathetic white boy rich kids will get into Harvard and totally think it was because they just worked really hard.
Fuck the Supreme Court
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Mace Windu: “only imposing if you see him that way”
Fuck it I’m bringing my Othello class into this again.
So we read American Moor by Keith Hamilton Cobb (review, full text is available as a free pdf if you look it up), which is a play that comments on the experience of black men who play the role of Othello as well as of course more generally on the experience of black men in the United States by showing the interior thoughts of an experienced black actor auditioning for the role of Othello in front of an inexperienced white director. There’s this line, it’s not even dialogue, it’s part of the description of what the actor is doing for the pre-show in the stage directions:
“He is a tall man, powerfully built and handsome, and only imposing if you see him that way.”
—American Moor, page 5
Sound like anyone we might know?
This caught my eye because I have noticed a bit of a pattern. Even very well meaning SW media—like Shatterpoint by Matthew Stover and fics that really love him—often goes out of its way to describe Mace Windu as intimidating and imposing.
And yeah on some level a tall man with muscles who knows how to fight might just be imposing, but to be honest I never remember Qui-gon Jinn being described that way, or Ki-Adi Mundi, or really any other tall, male Jedi. Dooku is sometimes described as intimidating, but it is usually framed in terms of either his Sith personality or his skill with a saber, not his physicality. Only some fics go out of their way to even describe Anakin as physically imposing.
And like I say, many of these works I’m noting are ones that have very good intentions and otherwise make mainly good, interesting moves with Mace’s character (works that take an explicitly negative view of Mace are a whole other can of worms I’m not addressing here). This is something that is being picked up from a deeply embedded culture of racism, not (in these cases at least) malicious. But that means writers, especially white writers—even if we have great intentions—we have to stay careful and aware of this. Readers aren’t off the hook either. It is through reading, and reading with a lot of love, that this pattern emerged to me.
Keep noticing these things, keep reading, keep writing, and maybe above all, keep revising.
Personally, I’m gonna be going back through my Mace Windu writing to check for this specifically.
#star wars#mace windu#racisim#racial bias#shatterpoint#fanfiction#othello#shakespeare#American Moor#looking for a decent review to link was…ugh#some people have apparently missed the point
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Herbert (Herb) Block political cartoon from the 1960s
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#class privilege#tumblr problems#protest#racial justice#racial bias#black lives are human lives#black lives matter#racial equality#racial issues
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Republicans insist that acknowledging facts is utterly disqualifying for Judges.
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I collected a lot of data. We collected millions of observations on everyday use of force that wasn’t lethal. We collected thousands of observations on lethal force.
And it was in this moment, 2016, that I realize people lose their minds when they don’t like the result.
So what my paper showed, you’ll see tomorrow, some of you, was that, yes, we saw some bias in the low level uses the force, everyday pushing up against cars and things like that. People seem to like that result.
But we didn’t find any racial bias in place shootings. Now that was really surprising because I expected to see it. The little-known fact is I had eight full-time RAs that it took to do this over nearly a year. When I found this surprising result, I hired eight fresh ones and redid it to make sure. They came up with the same exact answer, and I thought it was robust.
And then I went to go give it and my God, all hell broke loose.
It was 104 page dense academic economics paper with 150 page appendix. Okay? It was posted for four minutes when I got my first email. "This is full of shit." "It doesn’t make any sense." And I wrote back: "How'd you read it that fast? That's amazing. You are a genius."
And I had colleagues take me into, to the side and say, "don’t publish this. You’ll ruin your career." I said, what are you talking about? I said, what’s wrong with it? Do you believe the first part? Yes. Do you believe the second part? Well, it's... the issue is they just don’t fit together. We like the first one, but you should publish it-- the second one another time. I said, let me ask this. If the second part about the police shootings-- this is a literal conversation. I said to them, if the second part showed bias, do you think I should publish it then? And they said, Yeah, then it would make sense. And I said, I guarantee you, I’ll publish it. We’ll see what happens.
So, it was, it was, I lived under under police protection for about 30 or 40 days. I had a seven day old daughter the time. I remember going and shopping for-- because, you know when you have a newborn, you think you have enough diapers, you don’t. So I was going to the grocery store to get diapers with an armed guard. It was crazy. It was really, truly crazy.
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This is why Claudine Gay set out to destroy Roland's career.
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However low your opinion of Claudine Gay, it's not low enough.
#Roland Fryer#police shooting#police violence#police brutality#defund the police#ideology#ideological corruption#lethal force#racial bias#religion is a mental illness#Youtube
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I was gonna call out the Nani thing but my lord the fucking hypocrisy! I saw someone with a halle pfp complain about it. so if you’re a racial hypocrite just shut the fuck up when it comes to casting you don’t like because ppl don’t wanna fucking hear it unless you’re completely unbiased
Also apparently the girl playing Nani is Hawaiian she’s just mixed like jasmine was so… maybe just say y’all are racist have an issue with white/light skinned ppl and go instead of embarrassing yourselves, thx
It doesn’t change the fact that at the end of the day all Disney live action remakes exist for scummy capitalist reasons so maybe just dont support these things in general lmao
Update: as a mixed user who has been harassed by self proclaimed “sjw’s” ages ago and being called white over and over again I know damn well ppl on this site have an issue with light skinned ppl, jasmine, Nani and my harassment are proof of this. Y’all have gone beyond shitting on white ppl and are now moving on to white passing POC’s and we ain’t standing for it
Again just admit you have an anti white/lightskin bias and go 😂
more ppl are agreeing with me tho so there’s hope for this site after all
#lilo and stitch#live action#the little mermaid#racial bias#callout#people of tumblr#anti hypocrisy#anti sjw#we want real representation#princess asha is gonna kick ass while tlm is def gonna flop#Kandiibun#maddyspeaks
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Ok…..…. So, They suddenly turn their ONE conventionally attractive young black character in the show, whose a woman of course, into the “wwwwwiiiiiilllllld~ crazy bitch who can’t control her own emotions and powers.” And for the icing on this cake of what has now become a wildly backhanded attempt to make her sympathetic and show that she even has flaws. In turn, make her randomly and for absolutely no reason, MOLEST a guy using her powers?
*Sigh* you’ve gotta be fucking kidding me. I thought we were finally free of this despicable gruel. I thought perhaps maybe, we learned something? You know? Oh my god
Can we please stop, stop turning mentally ill and angry black feminine characters into villains and criminals for plot or fetish? There are better options! I enjoy watching The Umbrella Academy, I don’t know if anyone caught this or really thought about it but I certainly had to after being subjected to that crap.
What, in the seven shades of FUCK, were they thinking…. 😞 smh.
#the umbrella academy#allison hargreeves#tv tropes#truly despicable#racial bias#black lives matter#real talk#and why we need feminism#social studies#writers and poets#SEND HELP
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Being Black and presenting as masculine, embracing masculinity, traditionally masculine gender roles, and so much more that may be viewed as masculine within certain societies, is not lesser than anything associated with femininity. Black masculine women and femmes do not need to conform or perform to your standards and ideas of femininity, in order to be seen as human, gentle, caring, dainty, or worthy of protection. Neither do masc presenting Black women and femmes need to even like being feminine or have to be feminine in general, in order to be important and cherished voices within their respective communities.
All Black women and femmes, regardless of identities and presentations, do not need to embrace and present as feminine in order for our lives to be seen as valuable. We do NOT need to be feminine in order to receive sympathy or empathy. We do not need to be feminine in order to be included in the phrase/movement of Protect Black Women. And we don't need a connection to or to identify with womanhood in order for our voices to be heard.
This goes double for brown and dark skinned Black women and femmes even more. Challenge the systems that make it so darker Black women and femmes are barred from or have restricted access on exploring, embracing, and being seen feminine or women but also challenge the views and associations that being masculine or having a close and intimate relationship with manhood as a darker skinned Black woman/femme is inherently violent, inherently angrier, and inherently unattractive.
Last but not least darker skinned Black women and femmes who are plus sized and present as masculine, should not be anyone's epitomy of what violent, dangerous, or aggressive looks like. Biases like those directly contribute to systematic oppression against fat Black women/femmes on daily basis. They don't exist in a vacuum and should not be taken lightly.
Ultimately Black women and femmes having femininity, the right to identify or be seen as women stripped from us by white people and white supremacy, does not mean make masculinity unaccessible to us, or that presenting as masculine doesn't have its own prejudices and biases to dismantle, or that masculinity is a prison to us or our only viable option. If you're not advocating for and protecting all Black women and femmes than your activism, allyship, actions, and words, are empty.
#anti black racism#anti blackness#antiblackness#antiblack racism#racism#lgbt#queer#lgbtq#black masculinity#femininity#systemic discrimination#discrimination#bias#prejudice#protect black women#black femmes#racial discrimination#racial stereotyping#racial prejudice#racial bias#gender stereotyping#gender roles#gender nonconforming#lgbt poc#lgbtq poc#lgbt queer#lgbt community#lgbtq community#queer community#fatphobia
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#Kalief Browder#Trump#criminal justice system#solitary confinement#racial disparities#injustice#systemic racism#racism#discrimination#racial inequality#social justice#civil rights#racial bias#racial prejudice#racial discrimination#racial justice
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Can you say coverup??
Mayor Eric Adams, journalists and the NYPD all conspired to keep Daniel Penny’s name protected while assassinating the character of Jordan Neely.
And, as if that wasn’t bad enough, they all have repeatedly omitted the fact that Daniel Penny’s father is a retired, high ranking NYPD police officer who very likely worked with Eric Adams when he was a cop. These are completely newsworthy and germane facts, but the media is bending over backwards to not mention any of it.
EDIT: Please reblog with this important correction:
I have turned off the previous version of this post so as not to add to disinformation
Now, we learn that the gruesome video that was released has been edited to omit the parts where Daniel Penny was warned that he was killing Jordan Neely, but continued choking him anyway.
Worse still, Penny has not been arrested. And instead of charging Daniel Penny, the police are trying to force a Grand Jury hearing instead of doing what they would do if the positions were reversed and Neely had murdered Penny in cold blood, in front of dozens of witnesses.
This entire thing is a perverted travesty of justice and reveals just how closely journalists work with the police to protect the police and other murderous white supremacists.
This is what intertwined systems of structural racism looks like.
We need justice for Jordan Neely.
#jordan neely#blacklivesmatter#journalism fail#eric adams#media bias#two americas#racial bias#structural racism
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"I am not my ancestors!!!"
*Doesn't call out their friends racism, believes in stereotypes, denies their white privilege, uses the police as a way to keep black people in line, steals from black creators then tries to rebrand it as something new, gets mad a black safe spaces, uses their white tears as a way to get black people in trouble, whitewashes the truth,and is somehow always the victim in any situation at all time.*
Just cuz you don't have a whip in your hand and aren't telling black people to get back into the fields doesn't mean you're any different from your meemaw in the 50s or your pop pop in the 1700s bitch 🤷🏾♂️
#rants n rambles#antiblackness#antiracism#how to be an antiracist#anti blackness#lgbtq community#lgbtq#racism#race issues#racial bias#racial justice#racial profiling
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Asian MIT grad asks AI to make her photo more ‘professional,’ gets turned into white woman
(Carl Samson, nextshark.com, 7/31/23)
The student ended up with a fairer complexion, dark blonde hair and blue eyes after her Playground AI request.
A recent Asian American Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduate made headlines this month after sharing evidence of racial bias in artificial intelligence (AI).
What she asked for: Rona Wang, 24, has been experimenting with AI portrait generators. In a recent attempt, she purportedly used a program called Playground AI to turn an image of her in an MIT sweatshirt into “a professional LinkedIn profile photo.”
What she got: The program, to Wang’s surprise, returned an image that gave her a fairer complexion, dark blonde hair and blue eyes.“I was like, ‘Wow, does this thing think I should become white to become more professional?’” she told Boston.com. ...
The big picture: Racial bias is an ongoing concern in AI-generated images. While some programs have been accused of turning subjects white, others have been slammed for turning subjects Asian. Outside image generation, racial discrimination in AI facial recognition is also a concern, particularly among African Americans. How and whether artificial intelligence manages to solve these issues are yet to be seen.
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Jazmin Evans had been waiting for a new kidney for four years when her hospital revealed shocking news: She should have been put on the transplant list in 2015 instead of 2019 — and a racially biased organ test was to blame.
As upsetting as that notification was, it also was part of an unprecedented move to mitigate the racial inequity. Evans is among more than 14,000 Black kidney transplant candidates so far given credit for lost waiting time, moving them up the priority list for their transplant.
“I remember just reading that letter over and over again,” said Evans, 29, of Philadelphia, who shared the notice in a TikTok video to educate other patients. “How could this happen?”
At issue is a once widely used test that overestimated how well Black people’s kidneys were functioning, making them look healthier than they really were — all because of an automated formula that calculated results for Black and non-Black patients differently. That race-based equation could delay diagnosis of organ failure and evaluation for a transplant, exacerbating other disparities that already make Black patients more at risk of needing a new kidney but less likely to get one.
A few years ago, the National Kidney Foundation and American Society of Nephrology prodded laboratories to switch to race-free equations in calculating kidney function. Then the U.S. organ transplant network ordered hospitals to use only race-neutral test results in adding new patients to the kidney waiting list.
“The immediate question came up: What about the people on the list right now? You can’t just leave them behind,” said Dr. Martha Pavlakis of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and former chair of the network’s kidney committee.
Pavlakis calls what happened next an attempt at restorative justice: The transplant network gave hospitals a year to uncover which Black kidney candidates could have qualified for a new kidney sooner if not for the race-based test — and adjust their waiting time to make up for it. That lookback continues for each newly listed Black patient to see if they, too, should have been referred sooner.
Between January 2023 and mid-March, more than 14,300 Black kidney transplant candidates have had their wait times modified, by an average of two years, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing, which runs the transplant system. So far more than 2,800 of them, including Evans, have received a transplant.
But it’s just one example of a larger problem permeating health care. Numerous formulas or “algorithms” used in medical decisions — treatment guidelines, diagnostic tests, risk calculators — adjust the answers according to race or ethnicity in a way that puts people of color at disadvantage.
Given how embedded these equations are in medical software and electronic records, even doctors may not realize how widely they impact care decisions.
“Health equity scholars have been raising alarm bells about the way race has been misused in clinical algorithms for decades,” said Dr. Michelle Morse, New York City’s chief medical officer.
Change is beginning, slowly. No longer are obstetricians supposed to include race in determining the risk of a pregnant woman attempting vaginal birth after a prior C-section. The American Heart Association just removed race from a commonly used calculator of people’s heart disease risk. The American Thoracic Society has urged replacing race-based lung function evaluation.
The kidney saga is unique because of the effort to remedy a past wrong.
“Lots of time when we see health inequities, we just assume there’s nothing we can do about it,” Morse said. “We can make changes to restore faith in the health system and to actually address the unfair and avoidable outcomes that Black people and other people of color face.”
Black Americans are over three times more likely than white people to experience kidney failure. Of the roughly 89,000 people currently on the waiting list for a new kidney, about 30% are Black.
Race isn’t a biological factor like age, sex or weight — it’s a social construct. So how did it make its way into calculations of kidney function?
The eGFR, or estimated glomerular filtration rate, evaluates kidney health based on how quickly a waste compound called creatinine gets filtered from blood. In 1999, an equation used to calculate eGFR was modified to adjust Black people’s results compared to everyone else’s, based on some studies with small numbers of Black patients and a long-ago false theory about differences in creatinine levels. Until recently that meant many lab reports would list two results — one calculated for non-Black patients and another for Black patients that could overestimate kidney function by as much as 16%.
Not every Black kidney candidate was affected. Some may have had kidney failure diagnosed without that test. For others to have a chance at benefitting from UNOS’ mandated lookback, transplant center staff-turned-detectives often worked after hours and weekends, hunting years-old records for a test that, recalculated without the race adjustment, might make the difference.
“You’re reaching out to the nephrologist, their primary care doctors, the dialysis units to get those records,” said Dr. Pooja Singh of Jefferson Health’s transplant institute in Philadelphia, where Evans received her new kidney. “That first patient getting transplanted for us was such a great moment for our program that the work didn’t feel like work after that.”
A high school sports physical first spotted Evans’ kidney disease at age 17. While finishing her master’s degree and beginning to earn her Ph.D. at Temple University, she started dialysis — for nine hours a night while she slept — and was placed on the transplant list.
How long it takes to get a kidney transplant depends on patients’ blood type, medical urgency and a mix of other factors — including how long they’ve spent on the waiting list. Evans was first listed in April 2019. When the Jefferson transplant center unearthed her old lab tests, they found she should have qualified in September 2015.
“Just for context, when I was still an undergrad I should have been on the list,” she said, recalling the anger she felt as she read the letter. What she called “a mind-blowing” credit of 3½ more years waiting also provided “a glimmer of hope” that she’d be offered a matching kidney soon.
Evans got a new kidney on July 4 and is healthy again, and grateful the policy change came in time for her.
“You don’t know if people would be alive today” if it had been enacted earlier, she said. Still, that extra step of “making amends to fix the situation for those that we can — I feel like it’s very important and it’s very necessary if you’re truly wanting to bring more equity and equality into the medical field.”
#us politics#news#ap#2024#the associated press#kidney transplant#racial bias#us healthcare#eGFR#estimated glomerular filtration rate#transplant surgery
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