| Craan said: "I hate that term reverse racism would be hating your own race (White Guilt), and people dont seem to understand that what they percieve as "reverse racism" oftentimes is not about race at all but economic status, a mentality where if you weren't raised here you wouldnt understand to quote treach from naughty by nature "if you weren't raised in the ghetto you don't belong in the ghetto", and a very long history of discrimination that continues today. While thats not an excuse for people to act that way, and there are pretty racist black orginizations such as the Nation of Islam you have to understand that the "reverse racism "phenomenon is nothing more than a media created issue that allows for people like Rush Limbaugh and people like him, to call prominant minorities reverse racist without sounding racist themselves |
The link to the study is gone but from what was posted the study has a good premise in the way they went about it but they stopped short of actually isolating the concluded cause in any substantive way.
Specifically, they show that having socially "normal" names means you will get your resume downloaded 17% more often on average and that the difference between highly "normal" names and names that are highly "irregular" can produce a difference of up to 50%. They did not, however, show if this was exclusive to black sounding names and thus purely racially motivated or simply an aversion to calling someone whose name you can't pronounce easily (or any other reasons and combinations thereof).
In order to draw a strong conclusion statistically and scientifically it is not simply enough to show that there is some relation, you need explain the relation in detail. Or to put it another way, knowing that there is a relationship is only the first step.
My impression is that more than likely there is a combination of racial aversion, an aversion to names you can't pronounce, and probably a few things I haven't thought of. Which motivations exist to a statistically meaningful degree, and which motivations are most prominent is something the study can and should hopefully address in the future.
As for the bolded bit I will say that to dismiss reverse racism is just as folly as to dismiss racism in general. Both are out there. Now, while I don't agree with much of what Limbaugh says (granted I fairly rarely listen to part of his show when I'm bored) I sincerely believe it is ignorance to think he is truly a racist. Limbaugh is no more racist than Obama is - both invoke race for the sake of political maneuvering but neither do so hatefully or with malicious intent towards any race. I disagree with both of them for invoking race for political purposes but unfortunately the race card is a part of politics today and both sides use it regularly.
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