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Jul 19

"Participants were faster to correctly “shoot” a Black armed target than a White, Latino, or Asian armed target but slower to correctly “not shoot” a Black unarmed target"

"Thus, the perceived threat Blacks pose appears to overwhelm any potential threat from other groups"

"police officers were faster to shoot White than Asian armed targets, but slower to decide not to shoot White than Asian unarmed targets. In other words, racial bias was shown as a bias in favor of shooting Whites rather than Asians."

Link: psych.colorado.edu/~jclab/pdfs/Sa…

Selective Responses to Threat: The Roles of Race and Gender in Decisions to Shoot

"White participants showed a pronounced bias toward shooting Black men but a bias away from shooting Black women and White ingroup members"
researchgate.net/publication/51…

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May 28

The Lynching of Frazier and Julia Baker 🧵

On February 22, 1898, a white mob set fire onto the home of Frazier and Julia Baker while firing rounds into the house killing Frazier and their one year old daughter Julia

Lavinia and her five remaining children were able to escape

Background:
After the Civil War, many Black Americans were appointed postermaster often followed by a backlash by local whites

For example, Minnie Cox was the first Black American woman to be appointed postmaster in Mississippi in 1891 and was eventually forced to resign

Frazier Baker was a 40 year old schoolteacher, husband, and father of six when was appointed postermaster in Lake City, South Carolina, 1897

He immediately received complaints, was shot at twice, and white citizens would burn down their own post office to protest his appointment

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May 21

Laura Wheeler Waring came from an educated family and was a 6th generation college graduate who taught art for more than 30 years at Cheyney University and is best known for her portraits of Black Americans

A #BlackArt Appreciation 🧵
Anna Washington Derry, 1925

Laura Wheeler Waring
Little Brown Girl
#BlackArt

Laura Wheeler Waring
W.E.B. Du Bois
#BlackArt

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May 13

This paper covers online discourse around epigenetics and reparations for slavery and basically argues "individuals who are in favor of slavery reparations use science in
a narrow way" 🙄 🤔

A thread 🧵 breaking down and countering some of their arguments

One of her key arguments is very familiar or 'but slavery was so long ago'

She lowkey praises Kuzawa and Sweet (2009) for not using "a long term historical reaching back to the slavery era" and tries to focus their study on short term transmissions "such as during pregnancy"

Although Kuzawa and Sweet do not "reach back" to slavery they do reference how PTSD from the Holocaust affected women later in life during pregnancy

For some reason referencing the Holocaust isn't considered "reaching back" 🤔

Paper/thread below

https://twitter.com/NonHumanMedia1/status/1488293817186988042?t=mCLTVAsTZjcjEO1MhiETkA&s=19

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May 13

🏥 Healthcare thread on epigenetics and accelerated aging

Ronald Simons discusses how economic hardships, neighborhood conditions and childhood adversity effects accelerated aging
"We're controlling for things like diet and exercise"

https://twitter.com/NonHumanMedia1/status/1524526465387220996?t=y3Tun9g-oLmjCuoYgMsnAw&s=19

Ronald Simons discusses how incarceration effects accelerated aging

https://twitter.com/NonHumanMedia1/status/1491929018089848852?t=ot_erC81iVhMT19c3-aQ1g&s=19

Generally speaking black immigrants are less likely to suffer as much economic hardships as Black Americans, have much lower incarceration rates, and are more likely to live in "higher quality" neighborhoods and be married

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May 9

In 1942, President Roosevelt sent the Army Corps of Engineers to build 1600 miles of highway through the most difficult terrain in North America; much of that work was done by Black Americans 🧵

Members of the 95th Engineer Regiment building Sikanni River Bridge in Alaska, 1942

After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, securing Alaska became a major priority

The Alaska Highway was built in only eight months and half of its eight regiments were all Black; the 93rd, the 95th, the 97th, and the 388th

The completion of the Alaska Highway was an American military and engineering achievement

However, the contributions by thousands of Black American soldiers have deliberately been ignored and erased by mainstream media

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