Racial Issues in the Media

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/02/07/Richard_Thompson_Ford_Race_Card

Stanford Law Professor Richard Thompson Ford criticizes ways in which issues of racial prejudice are discussed in American media and popular culture.

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Richard Thompson Ford considers "The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse."

The George E. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, Richard Thompson Ford has published regularly on civil rights, constitutional law, race relations, and antidiscrimination law. In his new book, he asks what Katrina victims waiting for federal disaster relief, millionaire rappers buying vintage champagne, Ivy League professors waiting for taxis, and ghetto hustlers trying to find steady work have in common, and answers that all have claimed to be victims of racism.

Few people these days express openly racist beliefs or defend bigoted motives. So lots of people are victims of bigotry, but no one's a bigot? Ford considers whether a lot of people are lying about their true beliefs and motivations, or if a lot of people are jumping to unwarranted conclusions or just playing the race card.

Ford brings sophisticated legal analysis, lively and eye-popping anecdotes, and plain old common sense to this heated topic, offering ways to separate valid claims from bellyaching, and calling for us to treat racism as a social problem that must be objectively understood and honestly evaluated - Cody's Books

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[MultiSmartass1]

@Bbopjonez It is the structure of American society.

Many people-many of them white-see racism as an individualized,particularized issue that begins and ends with the bigot or racist.

People of color-a number of them black-know better because they have lived with a systemtic and systematic kind of racism that is impersonal not personal, not colorblind but colorconscious and that is about the maintenance of power and the need to oppress people.

Society has to change not merely people.

[RigamortisGardless]

i hear pitch and tone in a black man oht ohhhhhhh i smell a nother video comming on .....

[danielcooper1000]

We can never find justice at the hands of corrupt judges. (See YouTube videos) Judge to Judge on Illegal Payments to Judges / Evil Triangle of Court Corruption / Richard Fine / Dr Shirley Moore /SBX 211. The fight to end this title wave of corruption in our country must start with the corrupt judges. We can not bring evidence of corruption to corrupt judges. Los Angeles Superior Court judges are illegally and unconstitutionally taking 50,000.00 each for a total of 23 million per year.

[AgainstRacismDotInfo]

@grac27 Wow, there's obviously a race issue, or else we wouldnt be here talking about it.. It's a MAJOR and unfortunately, international issue. Come to the south of the U.S, you'll see the issues in front of you. Until then, check out our website on my Channel page and you can read about it all with examples included. :)

[AgainstRacismDotInfo]

@Bbopjonez That's right. There is a subtle and sometimes undiscussed racial dynamic, that should be discussed. Racism is alive and some "collective" measure must be taken to fix the problem.

[filmtress]

I agree on the 'standardized response'. People say the same dang things over & over. I remember my class was involved in a similar discussion and the latinos gave mainstream answers that whites have said for years. "What's the answer to racism?" Whites/Latinos: Education. What? That's it? Okay, education on whoes part? They say it as though blacks need to be educated and it will go away. Okay, so now that I'm educated why is racism still in existence? I don't burn crosses. Nothing gets done.

[MultiSmartass1]

There doesn't need to be "an obvious bigot" but the nature of American society is white supremacist by nature.

You don't need a klansman, a nazi, a teabagger to find racism, it exists in warp and woof of this society. Those individuals are manfestations and symptoms of the greater malady.

It is in America's interest and always has been to keep blacks in ghettos and hispanics in barrios.

This society was never founded with such people in mind which helps account for all the racial ills.

[Bbopjonez]

There's a racial dynamic to our society. Do you see any white people in the projects??? NO! Why could this be? Is it because people of color don't want to better themselves? NO its not! Its because racism exists its subtle but it exists.. Real Estate agents are selective in the houses and neighborhoods they show to whites and blacks, teachers cater to already successful typically white students coming from a stable household.. I am white and I could go on about these injustices for days!

[hco323]

@MawCowbell okay are you being serious with this? I don't understand what you just said.