Posts Tagged ‘implicit bias’
Racial profiling in 2018: Is the Starbucks incident part of a larger issue?
In a video that has now gone wildly viral and been viewed over 4M times on YouTube, two young African American men — Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson — are handcuffed and escorted out of a downtown Philadelphia Starbucks after the manager on duty called the police on them. The April 12 incident has inadvertently caused an…
Read MoreHeroin epidemic is brutal punishment for White privilege and implicit bias
In the 1980s and 90s, Blacks were criminalized for their drug use during the so-called War on Drugs. Black families’ health and safety were the collateral damage of what was deemed an inner city problem, a wave of issues that started as early as the 1960s. Our fathers, brothers and nephews were imprisoned. The only…
Read MoreBlack producer at CNN fired over anchor Ashleigh Banfield’s implicit bias?
Omar Butcher, a Black associate producer was fired from CNN in July 2015. Now he’s suing, accusing them of racial and religious discrimination. He was fired a day after he emailed anchor Ashleigh Banfield. He expressed concerns after she asked in an on-air segment whether society had “lost a generation” due to violence in the community. According…
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