Honors Colloquium: "Why America Can't Think Straight About Race (Even with a Black President)"

Sut Jhally is a Professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and founder and Executive Director of the Media Education Foundation (MEF). Perceptions about race shape everyday experiences, public policies, opportunities for individual achievement, and relations across racial and ethnic lines. URI's Fall Honors Colloquium will explore key issues of race, showing how race still matters.

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[TheElephantOpera]

@RobertEricLee2 In one state alone, a suspect was significantly more likely to receive the death penalty if he was black and the victim was white. When these death-eligible cases were analyzed by law students (who didn't know the races of the parties involved in each case), there was nearly no correlation between the severity of the crime and the resulting sentence (death penalty or no); the main correlation was race.

[TheElephantOpera]

@RobertEricLee2 What is particularly scientific about the justice system? Forms of justice can vary vastly between states and even neighboring counties. Outcomes can be determined by a suspect's access to high-quality legal defense or media coverage. Cases pass through judges and juries, all of whom are vulnerable to human errors like racial preconceptions.

[RobertEricLee2]

Professor Sut Jhally is condemning a very methodical and scientific justice system based on a biased (liberal) interpretation of accurate statistics, rather than the actual and proven guilt of those minorities sentenced. Racism, by definition, is precisely this: making prejudicial (not judicial) correlations based on groups, rather than on an individual or case-by-case basis. BUT being guided by "feelings," rather than facts, usually leads to self-contradiction as is the case here.

[Yeknom0913]

Stay Class C my friends.

[MammonOverMan]

Blacks created their own beds, let them sleep in it. Look at what they did to Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, Baltimore, Oakland, and St Louis.

Yet another stupid cultural Marxist professor.

[s0673451]

Just a fantastic talk. This should have 500k views, not 500

[Xephon212]

Man is brilliant. A true intellectual.