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Originally Posted by loramin
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This is the sort of thing we can only combat by using one of the other key points in my treatise, the one about changing how African-Americans are represented in TV and other pop culture so that cops (who are only human and watch the same TV as the rest of us) won't see/treat minorities differently.
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This is very naive if you think this will alter prejudiced white peoples views of blacks.
Prejudiced whites that watch black celebrities on TV or black athletes in sports don't recognize these celebrities as typical black people, these celebrities are "different."
The only way you change the hearts of prejudiced people to recognize other groups of people they hate as actual people is to have them spend time around them, to get to know them, so they can learn to understand them as actual human beings that share the same problems, loves, etc. in life.
The problem is, this is very hard to accomplish. Point is, no amount of watching LeBron James on TV is going to humanize black people to prejudiced whites.