Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

Racial Profiling in Crime Control Technologies Current concern with the federal surveillance of social protests on social media, particularly that of Twitter’s #blacklivesmatter ( Joseph, 2015 ), has coalesced the topics of the Fourth Amendment, civil liberties in a broad sense, and technology into conversation around the scale, scope, and cost of civilian surveillance.  https://www.whytheracecardisplayed.com/post/racial-profiling-in-crime-control-technologies

Police are increasingly monitoring social media to build evidence for criminal indictments. In 2014, 103 alleged gang members residing in public housing in Harlem, New York, were arrested in what has been called “the largest gang bust in history.” The arrests came after the New York Police Department (NYPD) spent 4 years monitoring the social media communication of these suspected gang members. In this article, we explore the implications of using social media for the identification of criminal activity. We describe everyday racism in digital policing as a burgeoning conceptual framework for understanding racialized social media surveillance by law enforcement. We discuss implications for law enforcement agencies utilizing social media data for intelligence and evidence in criminal cases. https://www.whytheracecardisplayed.com/post/digital-policing-in-the-use-of-social-media-for-identification-of-criminal-conduct-and-associations

DON'T BE STUPID! Proactive policing strategies and multiple forms of police misconduct and violence have disproportionately affected people of color who live in urban, disadvantaged communities ( Brunson & Miller, 2006 ). Justification of this behavior is rooted in historical narratives and a belief structure, often perpetuated in the criminal justice system that views Black men as “symbolic assailants” ( Anderson, 1990 ; Bridges & Steen, 1998 ; Brunson & Miller, 2006 ; Holmes, 2000 ; Jackson, 1997 ; Jacobs & O’Brien, 1998 ; Kennedy, 1997 ; Smith & Holmes, 2003 ; Quillian & Pager, 2001 ). Feagin (1991) warns that these covert and routine strategies have widespread, cumulative effects on both individuals and the collective consciousness of Black communities.  https://www.whytheracecardisplayed.com/post/social-media-use-in-identifying-and-investigating-criminal-conduct

Expectations of Racism, Media Thickness in African-American Women. Intima–media thickness , also called intimal medial thickness, is a measurement of the thickness of tunica intima and tunica media, the innermost two layers of the wall of an artery. The measurement is usually made by external ultrasound and occasionally by internal, invasive ultrasound catheters. Wikipedia https://www.whytheracecardisplayed.com/post/expectations-of-racism-media-thickness-in-african-american-women

Jon Wilkes Booth, Walt Whitman, and Stonewall Jackson all attended the execution of John Brown. John Brown was a hero and should be recognized as so but some call him a terrorist. More black people need to add him into the discussion with the rest of our hero's but he gets forgotten about way too often.

MEDIA, CRIME, AND RACISM Media , Crime and Racism draws together contributions from scholars at the leading edge of their field across three continents to present contemporary and longstanding debates exploring the roles played by media and the state in racialising crime and criminalizing … https://www.whytheracecardisplayed.com/post/media-crime-and-racism

Abstract The growth of racism during the past few years has been paralleled by a radical shift in the terms of debate on strategies for defeating it. In the early 1970s minority actions by the far left against the National Front were condemned in hysterical terms by commentators and politicians whose line for defeating racists was ‘ignore them and they’ll go away’. Today, erstwhile moderates vie with each other in denouncing racism and its fascist parasites. The Bishop of Aston announces in blood-curdling terms that if people realised the horror of a developed National Front ‘they would lie awake at night sweating with fear’; the Labour Party, authors in government of the anti-immigration policies and legislation that have contributed most to the rise of racism, devote an entire political broadcast to an attack on the National Front; Young Conservatives have even taken to producing anti-racist T-shirts. https://www.whytheracecardisplayed.com/post/mass-media-and-racism