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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (819615)	11/29/2014 1:31:35 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1586221

I don't believe that black males are violent, sub-human monsters, and neither do the vast majority of Americans, including white cops. You might not, but there certainly are a lot who do. Especially in the South. That has been a consistent theme for centuries. Do you think it is just an accident that when one of these shootings gets national attention, the first thing the Right does is comb through the victims Facebook accounts to drag up some photos of them mugging for the camera to prove they were thugs? Why do you think that Wilson did his best to paint Brown that way? Because it works. It is a stereotype that goes back centuries in this country. One that has been used to justify slavery. One that is being used to defend people, including cops, who shoot young black men. One that you have used, consciously or not, to smear both Brown and Martin. The worst forms of prejudice are the ones a person is convinced they don't have. Man is a rationalizing creature, not a rational one. This has been proven with split-brain studies. When the non-verbal hemisphere would do something that the verbal one wasn't expecting, they often come up with reasons that bore no relationship with reality when they were questioned about why that event occurred. en.wikipedia.org As a result, suppressed prejudice colors the way information gets processed. If that processed information gets challenged, there is a tendency to cast about for rationalizations to cover for what is really just prejudice speaking. Good example. Most people associate 'illegal immigrant' with Hispanics and see enforcing the border as the way to combat it. The reality is that most new ones are Asian who are over-staying their visas. Closing the border does nothing to change the situation.