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02/17/2008: "Most associate blacks with apes"

Crude historical depictions of African Americans as ape-like may have disappeared from mainstream U.S. culture, but research presented in a new paper by psychologists at Stanford, Pennsylvania State University and the University of California-Berkeley reveals that many Americans subconsciously associate blacks with apes.

In addition, the findings show that society is more likely to condone violence against black criminal suspects as a result of its broader inability to accept African Americans as fully human, according to the researchers.

[ The usual academic game: take one factor out of thousands, look at it only, and then draw convenient conclusions. Multiculturalism always fails, and the excuses used to justify disliking it are unimportant. To many black people, white people look and smell like (washed) pigs. If nothing else, this article should be used to encourage better treatment of animals. ]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080207163811.htm