Racial stereotyping, love it or leave it.
A test established some months ago that I have a modest preference for Black versus White people, based on assigning the value judgments “Good” and “Bad” to race-specific facial images.
At the time, I chalked this up to living in a mixed-race neighborhood with nice people, but yesterday, while listening to KKJZ, the #1 jazz radio station in the US, a deeper set of reasons surfaced.
Good / Bad
Martin Luther King / Bernard Law, the Inquisition, the Magdalene Sisters
Colin Powell / the Bulger boys and George W. Bush
Miles Davis, Coltrane / the America-firsters who have, unfortunately, co-opted Country music
Kunte Kinte / Bull Connor
Rush Limbaugh / Thomas Sowell, Callie Crossley
Tiger Woods, Randy Moss, Bill Russell / the screaming, drunken hoardes at major sports venues
Bravery, courage, defeating the odds, family loyalty / privilege, cruelty, taking advantage, sociopathy, child abuse
Based on how it used to be, if these associations were a majority view, it would be a public perception flip of no small consequence.
It might even help to explain the remarkable ascendance of a certain candidate for President.