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(22,756 posts)"White Denial and the Unacceptable Burden of Blackness in America"
"...we are a society in which research has shown quite conclusively that local newscasts overrepresent blacks as criminals, relative to their actual share of total crime, and overrepresent whites as victims, relative to our share of victimization.
A society in which other studies have shown that these racially-skewed newscasts have a direct relationship to widespread negative perceptions of black people. Indeed, a substantial percentage of anti-black racial hostility can be directly traced to media imagery, even after all other factors are considered.
A society in which the disproportionate incarceration of black males especially for non-violent drug offenses, which they are no more likely (and often even less likely) than whites to commit feeds the perception that they are so treated because they are dangerous and must be kept at bay.
A society in which criminality is so associated with blackness that whites literally and almost instantly connect the two things in survey after survey, and study after study, even though we are roughly 5 times as likely to be criminally victimized by another white person as by a black person..."
http://redroom.com/member/tim-wise/blog/trayvon-martin-white-denial-and-the-unacceptable-burden-of-blackness-in-america