8 stats that reveal just how badly the police state hurts black women

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5. Definitely an old old myth

Anyone remember when New Yorker had this out illustrating that?



And regarding "pain" - here is something that reinforces the article's point -

Study: Whites Think Black People Feel Less Pain
July 11, 2013 12:00 PM ET

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SILVERSTEIN: <...> We have this assumption that because black people have been hardened by certain life experiences, that they can deal with more pain or they feel it less intensely, and therefore, they're forced to endure even more. So this was a very surprising result that we have here that shows us how this sort of works in a cycle.

MARTIN: And you were saying that the implications of this go far beyond administering pain medication.

SILVERSTEIN: Sure, sure. You know, I think that, look, if we can see that people generally assume that black people feel less pain, you can imagine all of the different social problems that this explains. One area is healthcare, but it's also the criminal justice system. We know that race and empathy impact jury decisions, and we know that black defendants receive harsher sentences for the same crimes. But in particular, if we take a close look at the juvenile justice system, what we start to see is that young youth of color are being tried much more aggressively than white youth. And why is this? We've also seen research that it's because there's a certain perception that black juveniles are not treated as innocents.

They're not treated with compassion. But at every stage, they're treated much more like adults and therefore subjected to harsher treatments, tried in adult courts and given adult sentences for things that, for white students or white juveniles, would be just written off as perhaps pranks or something that could be a slap on the wrist.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=201128359

And the truly sad part about this is that with all the references in the OP's article and the reference shown above, there are far too many out here in this country and right here on DU who prefer to do this -