#DannyTroupe, who is white, was mad a cop have him a ticket in May; he dragged the cop through an exit ramp in July. He wasn't shot.
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This isn't an isolated example. Black people's bodies are unconsciously considered weapons by cops—no matter what they're doing.
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A black person can be sitting on a porch, walking on a street, driving in a car, trying to live a life but it's always suspicious to cops.
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A white person can too often yell stunning profanities, pull out a gun, assault an officer, and more—but their humanity remains intact.
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Cops, and pretty much everyone else, have what researchers call implicit bias—an unconscious preference for whiteness/aversion for blackness
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I've written about implicit bias in the past; I don't think much has changed:http://www.colorlines.com/articles/putting-casual-racism-trial …
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You can take an implicit bias test, and I encourage white folks especially to do so (but pls also read next tweet) https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatouchtest.html …
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If you're white and take implicit bias test, please consider not sharing results with a person of color. Please lean on your white friends.
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I say this because you almost certainly got biases against blackness. And telling people of color that is... it's awkward and taxing on us.
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Sharing results with your white friends and family and talking through it might be a lot more productive.
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Again: if you're white, please don't share you implicit bias test results with me. I'm not here to give you a cookie or to absolve you. Ty.
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