https://contemporaryracism.org/3229/know-your-facts/ An academic blog about whiteness, implicit bias, and systemic racism Fri, 21 Oct 2016 19:20:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://contemporaryracism.org/3229/know-your-facts/comment-page-1/#comment-769 Fri, 21 Oct 2016 19:20:32 +0000 http://contemporaryracism.org/?p=3229#comment-769 Actually, it’s not surprising one bit to know that the ideas and beliefs that your friend shares are the people are in positions of power. I’ve actually heard this argument from somebody I know too and it was quite upsetting to hear, because they are directly and overtly asserting blame to an entire marginalized group of people for what (statistically) another group is doing to them. It sounds like your friend was victim-blaming and it happens way too often in society to stop anytime soon – unless people like yourself and your other friends, help to address these comments.
I also think it was extremely easy for some students to make a connection between the BB gun found and the classic case of “who done it?”. It’s not surprising, because Berg is a predominantly white campus and just a few minutes from us lies a city with mainly a Latinx and African-American population. Her comments and those who say similar things also perpetuate the “in-group” bias and further separates “us v. them”.

]]>