I paid for a subscription after I read the first two parts of this series for free. Thank you for excellent work. Some thoughts...
1. You were right to criticize Coleman Hughes. He (and Loury/McWhorter) promoted an obviously biased and flawed documentary. They should be called to account and you did that in a rational, even-handed manner …
I paid for a subscription after I read the first two parts of this series for free. Thank you for excellent work. Some thoughts...
1. You were right to criticize Coleman Hughes. He (and Loury/McWhorter) promoted an obviously biased and flawed documentary. They should be called to account and you did that in a rational, even-handed manner relying on evidence.
2. Roland Fryer got famous a few years ago after he published a paper that found no difference in the incidece of deaths in custody between black and white victims. What I'd love to hear more about is the difference in lower level harrassment for black vs. white citizens in major urban centers. I think this ongoing, low level police mistreatment has a significant affect on the social development and socialization of young, African American males. It contributes to a distrust of authority and reinforces the widely held belief that the lives of young black men are defined and constrained by the color of their skin. I'm sure experts have expounded on the effect of police harrassment in poorer, inner city African American communities. I'd love to read them and hear your opinion about them
Thanks! I'm planning to write on these issues soon. Short take: I think Fryer's study was was flawed, but I also think he's been treated unfairly. I'm also not sure if it's really possible to know if there is racial bias in police shootings. We do know (and Fryer has acknowledged) that there is extensive racial bias in just about every other police interaction, from stops, to searches, to escalation, to use of non-lethal force.
I paid for a subscription after I read the first two parts of this series for free. Thank you for excellent work. Some thoughts...
1. You were right to criticize Coleman Hughes. He (and Loury/McWhorter) promoted an obviously biased and flawed documentary. They should be called to account and you did that in a rational, even-handed manner relying on evidence.
2. Roland Fryer got famous a few years ago after he published a paper that found no difference in the incidece of deaths in custody between black and white victims. What I'd love to hear more about is the difference in lower level harrassment for black vs. white citizens in major urban centers. I think this ongoing, low level police mistreatment has a significant affect on the social development and socialization of young, African American males. It contributes to a distrust of authority and reinforces the widely held belief that the lives of young black men are defined and constrained by the color of their skin. I'm sure experts have expounded on the effect of police harrassment in poorer, inner city African American communities. I'd love to read them and hear your opinion about them
Thanks for an excellent series.
Thanks! I'm planning to write on these issues soon. Short take: I think Fryer's study was was flawed, but I also think he's been treated unfairly. I'm also not sure if it's really possible to know if there is racial bias in police shootings. We do know (and Fryer has acknowledged) that there is extensive racial bias in just about every other police interaction, from stops, to searches, to escalation, to use of non-lethal force.