I'm so pissed!!!!!! (interview on Newshour)

[LAS14]

A clinical psychologist, Rianna Anderson, is being interviewed on the News Hour (we taped it... but I think she's still on). The question was how does watching the Tyre Nichols video affect people. She chose not to watch the video, but she had three responses.

1 - People are afraid it will happen to them

2 - Numbness

3 - Teaching people to dehumanize the victims.

How about this????? We who have heard about the unfairness of police behavior toward people of color, but didn't really, really, understand, now really, really understand that WE HAVE TO STOP THIS!!!!

Not everyone in society is a client of a clinical psychologist!!! Her experience is not the only response. PEOPLE SHOULD WATCH THIS VIDEO!!!!! The Newshour should not have endorsed her narrow view of the world.

[Irish_Dem]

1. The GOP goal is to make a docile, apathetic, numb populace.

Helps the GOP spread propaganda, hatred and anger.
And steal elections.

[secondwind]

2. I will not watch this video. I don't need to. I have seen and heard enough already.

[phoenix75]

3. Likewise. 🕯

[AkFemDem]

4. There is a LOT of support for her POV on

Black Twitter. The consensus being, Black trauma is not entertainment for the masses and that sharing those images just increases stress and trauma reactions.

[littlemissmartypants]

5. This person? Riana Elyse Anderson the Scholar?

Structural Racism Is Not An Exemption From Accountability

Paige Nong William Lopez Paul Fleming Riana Elyse Anderson Melissa Creary
MAY 27, 2021 DOI: 10.1377/forefront.20210526.665071

In February 2021, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) tweeted, “No physician is racist, so how can there be structural racism in health care?” The tweet was designed to promote a podcast that was ostensibly focused on structural racism yet did not include experts on the topic. The subsequent uproar highlighted the harm caused by deep intentional ignorance of the term structural racism, defined in the American Journal of Public Health as “policies and practices…that confer advantages on people considered White and ideologies that maintain these advantages, while simultaneously oppressing other racialized groups.”

Among the many problems with JAMA’s tweet and podcast was the speakers’ attempt to assuage discomfort with the possibility of their own racism by focusing instead on structural racism. That is, these powerful individuals explicitly presented structural racism as less closely related to personal culpability. Rather than engaging with both types of racism, the speakers chose to deflect attention to structural issues as if they as individuals played no role within those structures.

This rhetorical move represents a concerning example of how powerful individuals and institutions can misuse the term structural racism to obscure their own roles in racist systems and interactions.

Over the past year, many leaders and organizations have declared that racism is a public health crisis and acknowledged that structural racism is a serious problem. However, a critical question remains: How do we ensure that the concept of structural racism is not appropriated to serve the interests of the powerful in avoiding accountability for their roles in racism?

More...https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/forefront.20210526.665071/full/

[littlemissmartypants]

6. Her professional summary...

Riana Elyse Anderson Ph.D.
is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health. She earned her PhD in Clinical and Community Psychology at the University of Virginia and completed a Clinical and Community Psychology Doctoral Internship at Yale University's School of Medicine. She also completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Applied Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania supported by the Ford and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations.

She uses mixed methods in clinical interventions to study racial discrimination and socialization in Black families to reduce racial stress and trauma and improve psychological well-being and family functioning. She is particularly interested in how these factors predict familial functioning and subsequent child psychosocial well-being and health-related behaviors when enrolled in family-based interventions. Dr. Anderson is the developer and director of the EMBRace (Engaging, Managing, and Bonding through Race) intervention and loves to translate her work for a variety of audiences, particularly those whom she serves in the community, via blogs, video, and literary articles. Finally, Dr. Anderson was born in, raised for, and returned to Detroit and is becoming increasingly addicted to cake pops.

https://sph.umich.edu/faculty-profiles/anderson-riana.html

Assistant Professor, Health Behavior & Health Education
3822 SPH I
1415 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029
Phone:Office: [phone]
Fax:Fax: [phone]
Email:[e-mail]
Read her resume here...
https://sph.umich.edu/faculty-profiles/pdf/rianae.pdf

[walkingman]

7. These are a few items that I think should happen....yesterday.

I choose not to watch it myself.

Get rid of qualified immunity and face civil liability for their actions and carry liability insurance - not taxpayers. If they cannot be insured they cannot be hired.

Officers who have been terminated due to police misconduct should not be able to work in law enforcement again.

Stop the "militarization" of police. America is not a war zone at least not yet.

Quit hiring "assholes" to begin with - raise the standards and more people will want to be cops.