Marginal Christianity

The new threat: 'Racism without racists' By John Blake , CNN Updated 9:32 AM ET, Thu November 27, 2014 Source: CNN   (CNN) In a classic study on race, psychologists staged an experiment with two photographs that produced a surprising result. They showed people a photograph of two white men fighting, one unarmed and another holding a knife. Then they showed another photograph, this one of a white man with a knife fighting an unarmed African-American man. When they asked people to identify the man who was armed in the first picture, most people picked the right one. Yet when they were asked the same question about the second photo, most people -- black and white -- incorrectly said the black man had the knife. Even before it was announced that a grand jury had decided not to indict a white police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black teen in Ferguson, Missouri, leaders were calling once again for a "national conversation on race." Bu...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/07/white-privilege-at-princeton-never.html Some pointers for the Princeton kid and others who deny that racial bias exists in America today. White folks went to great lengths in the last weeks to denounce the overt racism of figures like Cliven Bundy and Donald Sterling. At the same time, a lot of white folks—especially conservatives— continue   to   deny  there is implicit or structural racial bias in America.  One example  surfaced just days later on Time  magazine’s website, an essay by a  young white male college student  who not only denies racial bias, and thus white privilege in America, but also basically accuses those pointing out such bias of being racist. According to my experience (and my Twitter feed), this young man’s perspective is not unique. It’s also not correct. So I offer some (hopefully helpful) clarifying thoughts for my fellow white folks, especially those struggling to co...