Links on racism and police brutality

Ways to combat police brutality (with examples of police brutality against African Americans)

http://newsone.com/nation/how-to-fight-police-brutality/

A disturbing Facebook post on examples of police brutality against African Americans:

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=17514257226&topic=4537

From article "The Connection Between Blacks As Apes And Police Brutality"

http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/02/the-connection-between-blacks-as-apes-and-police-brutality/

In one study, participants who were made to think about apes were more likely to support police violence against black (but not white) criminal suspects. The association actually caused them to endorse anti-black violence. Most disturbing of all, however, was a study of media coverage and the death penalty. Looking at a sample of death-eligible cases in Philadelphia from 1979 to 1999, the more that media coverage used ape-like metaphors to describe a murder trial (i.e. “urban jungle,” “aping the suspects behavior,” etc.) the more likely black suspects, but not white suspects were to be put to death.

Not surprisingly, black suspects were much more likely to be described in ape-like terms. And they were more frequently executed by the state.


Subconscious mental connection between blacks, apes may reinforce subtle discrimination

http://www.physorg.com/news123944737.html

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