IF you missed the PBS broadcast on WQEC of Time Team America's visit to New Philadelphia, site of the town founded in Pike County by Free Frank McWorter in 1836, click on this link.
AND no matter the positive side of this piece of our history, internalized, institutional racism is still alive in America.
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Have you paid any attention to the Gates story?
ReplyDeleteGuy starts yelling at a cop and acting like that, he gets cuffed. Color doesn't matter.
The professor figured he could get away with it because he knew Obama and could play the "don't you know who I am?" card.
You're smarter than this. This isn't Rodney King.
I'm not sure if the Gates thing really is an example of "institutional" racism either way you'd cut it. Institutional would suggest that the police officers were cruising down the street, saw Gates, thought he looked out of place, and started giving him a hard time. As it was they just responded to what the dispatcher told them. If anyone here is racist it's the Cambridge woman who didn't even know who her neighrbors were.
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