I see this literally every day, in so many different situations. My kids are mixed race, but light skinned enough that nearly all white people assume they are white, and their friends come from a wide variety of ethnicities, and the difference in the way adults approach the various groups is so stark and obvious it’s…

Oh yeah, white teen attacks someone: “Boys will be boys.”

But I will say that this article does bring back memories of when I was a kid and how some of my teachers would get livid, whenever I would inform them about an error that they’ve made during our lessons. Or, whenever another female student would inform them of their mistakes. And when I say that they were ‘livid’, I…

I apologize profusely, my dear Rooo, for coming across like I was just asking a white woman. I meant no disrespext. I was just assuming there woukd be other folks here in the know but that was not at all clear from what i said. I know where I’m posting and thought it was assumed that I was asking everyone but I see…

Ask the African-American educators you know.

Yep (full disclosure: I am a white woman). We’re not a part of the problem...we are the problem.

Yes, and not enough teachers are made aware of it. Black students are a huge minority at my university, and I see so many who come into classes with their guards up, already convinced that they’ve got two strikes against them. Studies like this basically affirm that they’re not wrong.

Yes. It’s disgusting the way white adults are infantilized but our children are described as adults.

As you said this is well-known in the black community. What I also personally find is that the opposite is true white men and women get the benefit of “childhood” long after it should be exhausted.

 I’m an educator, this is 100% sad but true.

“A lot of musicals are set in the olden days when minorities were not really around”

It works for so many officers though.

Yes. I don’t get how these cops can get off by saying they feared for their lives if there isn’t some objective, reasonable in danger at that moment. Mother F*cker, we train you and pay you to be rational in these situations. Not, he’s big and black= killing OK. No, he has a gun in his hand and he’s lifting it up.

It doesn’t matter what we do, whites will always hate us.

No, “He was black and I was therefore immediately “piss-my-pants” scared” is not justification for a supposedly trained professional; it just wouldn’t be unlawful…

“The standard is that the fear needed to be reasonable, which is attempting as an objective standard. The problem is that it’s not objective because black person immediately make the situation more threatening in the mind of too many people.”

Respectability politics is nonsense. Back when everyone wore suits and hats, white Americans were tremendously racist. Possibly even moreso than the current day.

If a cop fears for his life he is legally allowed to do anything he wants, including torturing someone to death, police based gang violence, rape, or any other thing you can imagine. Blue lives matter. More than yours. Always.

Hello! Now I’m curious as to how exactly they’re treating “ordinary” black men; Not even “criminal” or “suspect”, just ordinary. That’s why I can’t even fully get behind respectability politics, because they’re gunning for you either way. I’m tired of it.

The standard is that the fear needed to be reasonable, which is attempting as an objective standard. The problem is that it’s not objective because black person immediately make the situation more threatening in the mind of too many people.

I has a discussion with a friend about this and we thought about using a point…