In the past 10 years across every major city, there have been an increase of cameras watching us. Go here to see a visual map for the real time traffic cameras in NYC, http://nyctmc.org/, or here for various spots in California, http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist1/d1tmc/1_cam.php?cam=4. Ok, so you don’t drive very much, how about McDonalds, Wal-Mart of K-Mart,…
Tag: Black people
Suspicious behaviors are tainted by our perceptions of “race” and gender stereotypes
Suspicious behaviors are often understood within situations and contexts. For example, George Zimmerman murdered Trayvon Martin in part because environmental contextual cues shaped his belief of suspicious behavior. Trayvon, a young African American teenager, wearing a hood may have seemed out of place in a mostly White gated community. His behavior was viewed by Zimmerman within…
The Assassination of Renisha McBride, Part 2: Let Us Mourn In Peace!
As predictable as the sound of a choo-choo from a passing train, the media is trying to control how we mourn the loss of Renisha McBride. The media is trying to riff off the popular stereotype that people of color are overly emotional and therefore, unstable. That somehow our melanin correlates positively with emotional instability,…
Brian Ragsdale Writer.com 