To White Americans, giving up television is a hardship; being Black is not.That's the upshot of a series of studies by researchers at the Ohio State University. As part of the studies, Whites of different ages and geographic regions were asked how much they deserved to be paid for living the rest of their lives as an African-
Respondents generally requested less than $10,000 to become Black. However, they said they'd have to be paid $1 million to give up television for the rest of their lives.
...The study, titled, The Cost of Being Black: White Americans' Perceptions and the Question of Reparations, was facilitated by a postdoctoral fellowship to Mazzocco from Ohio State's Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. The study appears in the fall 2006 issue of Harvard's Du Bois Review, a journal on social science research on race...
Respondents generally requested less than $10,000 to become Black. However, they said they'd have to be paid $1 million to give up television for the rest of their lives.
...The study, titled, The Cost of Being Black: White Americans' Perceptions and the Question of Reparations, was facilitated by a postdoctoral fellowship to Mazzocco from Ohio State's Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. The study appears in the fall 2006 issue of Harvard's Du Bois Review, a journal on social science research on race...
The costs of being Black in our society are very well documented, says study co-author Philip Mazzocco. Blacks have significantly lower income and wealth, higher levels of poverty and even shorter life spans, among many other disparities, compared to Whites.
When Whites say they would need $1 million to give up TV, but less than $10,000 to become Black, that suggests they don't really understand the extent to which African-Americans, as a group, are disadvantaged, says Mazzocco.
...Our data suggest that such resistance is not because White Americans are mean and uncaring, morally bankrupt or ethically flawed, adds Dr. Mahzarin R. Banaji, a professor of social ethics at Harvard University. White Americans suffer from a glaring ignorance about what it means to live as a Black American.
...[The] surveys show that 90 to 96 percent of White Americans are against slave descendant reparations. It is nearly impossible to get that many people to agree on anything, so it is an issue that really deserves attention to see why this is, says Mazzocco. We need to take a heated and emotional issue and look through a scientific lens.
This from Diverse Magazine.
When Whites say they would need $1 million to give up TV, but less than $10,000 to become Black, that suggests they don't really understand the extent to which African-Americans, as a group, are disadvantaged, says Mazzocco.
...Our data suggest that such resistance is not because White Americans are mean and uncaring, morally bankrupt or ethically flawed, adds Dr. Mahzarin R. Banaji, a professor of social ethics at Harvard University. White Americans suffer from a glaring ignorance about what it means to live as a Black American.
...[The] surveys show that 90 to 96 percent of White Americans are against slave descendant reparations. It is nearly impossible to get that many people to agree on anything, so it is an issue that really deserves attention to see why this is, says Mazzocco. We need to take a heated and emotional issue and look through a scientific lens.
This from Diverse Magazine.
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