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Never one to mince words, Yvette Carnell says that black people react to fiercely to charges of racism when they could, in fact, be 
reacting to things that actually matter in their everyday lives, like jobs and good government. It’s not that racism isn’t important, and shouldn’t be taken into account, but that black people spend far too much time fixated on the topic of race and racism.
In fact, Carnell thinks black people spend so much time obsessing over charges of racism in disparate areas that the media now uses race to distract African Americans away from issues that matter.
According to Carnell, black writers are mostly to blame because they take the bait and sensationalize all racial news in favor of news that actually impacts the everyday lives of ordinary black Americans. Carnell made previous comparisons to black people and Pavlov’s dogs in a January article titled Is Ron Paul a Racist?, but does she have a point?
Here is a portion of the article:
Pavolov was a scientist who studied physiology, and this was Pavlov’s experiment:
Pavlov became interested in studying reflexes when he saw that the dogs drooled without the proper stimulus. Although no food was in sight, their saliva still dribbled. It turned out that the dogs were reacting to lab coats. Every time the dogs were served food, the person who served the food was wearing a lab coat. Therefore, the dogs reacted as if food was on its way whenever they saw a lab coat.
In a series of experiments, Pavlov then tried to figure out how these phenomena were linked. For example, he struck a bell when the dogs were fed. If the bell was sounded in close association with their meal, the dogs learnt to associate the sound of the bell with food.
Black people react to racism, or the mere suggestion of racism, the same way Pavlov’s dogs reacted to lab coats and bells. It is a learned response to a perceived threat, but it makes us weak prey to people who would much rather have us distracted than engaged. And this reflexive is damning us to permanent second class status, especially here in America.
Take for example the highly sensationalized reporting on Ron Paul’s 20 year old racist newsletters. Republicans didn’t even need to do any heavy lifting to get Ron Paul disqualified based on the inflammatory accusation that he published those newsletters. Why? All they needed to do, all they did, was mention that Paul supposedly wrote racist newsletters 20 years ago and, instinctively, black writers went in for the kill, and wasted their time and valuable platforms fighting a battle that wasn’t their own.
With unemployment at record levels and discretionary spending being gutted, the space underneath the bylines of black writers would’ve been put to better use un-peeling back those layers, and sounding the alarm so that black Americans were made aware of the devastation to come. But, Pavlovian as they are, black writers couldn’t resist drooling over a story which involved race. You see, it is not just racism that undoes us, but our reaction to it, as well…. READ MORE
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ellen
August 11, 2012 at 4:20 pm
undoes.Is that an English word? Not in my dictionary.
d-rhyme
July 19, 2012 at 12:33 pm
You guys said it. Ms Carnell needs to apologize for this one. The audacity. She must be gay and prefers white to black. I tell people all the time. Please dontt be like the ones Harriet Tubman would have shot. Impeding the path to freedom for others. Sad.
MOVE Mau Mau RBG
July 19, 2012 at 12:19 am
Hahahaha leave it to Yvette to blame the victims of White Supremacy on the Victim. Hello? Unemployment, Crime and poverty are ALL RESULTS of Racism. To reduce that to psychological impairment of perception? Are you kidding me? Did they leave out the fact that if they even caught your Black a*s with a Book let alone knowing how to read it for almost 3 centuries in this Country and all around the Globe they would have moved you to the front of the rape, murder, death and kill line. Then another 100 years of Jim Crow after that which only ended in 1965. To compare our condition of a people who had their identity, language, culture, names, religion erased and replaced with something lower than a farm animal. For us to have only been technically able to live our own lives without the threat of imminent death the last 47 years is amazing. Maybe you need to put this article on hold for another 400 years Ms. Carnell because that’s how long it took to get us in this condition. If we are still the same 400 years from now you might have a point. But for now this article might as well be titled. You got raped because you wore a skirt, don’t get mad, bro. Then at the heart of this article you use Ron Paul. Are you f*****g serious right now? If a Black Man ‘wrote’ a racist newsletter printed under his name, under his publishing company and authorized to be printed by him, funded by him whether he wrote it or not, would you say “so-called”? You know what kills me the most about racism. It’s not racism, it’s the fact that no matter how racist some people are towards us, they act like we are supposed to love them anyway. I don’t care if they don’t like or love me, just don’t expect me to like or love you back. Then you go to accuse Black Writers of being attack dogs for perceptions of Racism. No, it’s that the only time most knee-grows pay attention to Black Issues is when it is clear cut cases of Racism. Not when it’s Black against Black – Self Hatred like the killings in Chicago, Not when it’s economic like Black People spending Billions of dollars in stores, on hair and giving tithes in Church every year (80 Billion) but can’t go to another Black person for a Job. Can you find me an example of millions of White Women putting a diluted form of chemical on their scalp knowing it causes baldness, fibroids and chemical burns to look like a group of people that hate them and what comes out of their womb by the Billions of dollars a year. No, you can’t. Every issue in the Black Community at it’s core is Racism and mental conditions caused by it. To tell people who point out the obvious forms of the sickness that they are the ones who are wrong, leads me to ask what team are you really playing for, because this article is some bullshit. Once again your conclusion don’t include all the facts Yvette. Who owns the media outlets for these so-called Black Writers? Who is the Editor that decides which story is printed on even has space on their websites? If it is a Black Person, is this person married to or sleeping with a white person? Is this Black owner a Europeanized knee-grow who cowardly stays away from all forms of Racism except obvious ones of Police Brutality and Murder because in the bigger picture those might effect lives but don’t really cut in Massa Charley’s bottome line which is getting you Black Buffoons to spend as much money on a bunch of Eurocentric bullshit and Christmas as you possibly can and don’t any of Black a*s bastards dare ask for a job working at any factory that makes any of the s**t they tell you that you are worthless unless you buy? See how racism works? If a retail company is advertising on a website supposedly for Black People why would a Editorial director put a article out telling Black people issues about Economic Racism and empowerment? Once again back to square one Yvette. If we don’t own our own, because of a system of Supremacy and brainwashing they encourage in our people. We are to blame for it? If you see a 5 year old playing around the stove and you know they will burn themself if you don’t stop them or say anything. Is it their fault or yours? If you made a stove that automatically turned itself on and owned the hospital that provided treatment for burn wounds, would you let someone stop that kid from burning himself if you made money off of it? That is why blatant stories of racism get so much more press. It helps the undercover racist pet his dog and let the dog think massa is not racist and it helps the few he lets in his house think everything isn’t that bad. Meanwhile the systme stays safe and in place and you pets go shopping at his stores. And once again another article from Yvette Carnell telling Black people these stories that MASSA only allows to be seen on his media – The problem with Black People?
Eric Wright
July 18, 2012 at 9:20 pm
I must respectfully disagree with this analysis. I find most of Carnell’s articles insightful, but this is way off the mark.
“Black people react to racism, or the mere suggestion of racism, the same way Pavlov’s dogs reacted to lab coats and bells. It is a learned response to a perceived threat”
What is meant by perceived threat? White supremacy is omnipresent, and it manifests itself in the most tangible of occurrences at a frequency that is virtually immeasurable. If Blacks are so stimulated by this “perceived threat”, then the reaction would also be omnipresent. The reactions that the black community has toward white supremacy are at best INSUFFICIENT. Perception has to do with sensing something. Senses involve a stimulus and it also suggests that this stimulus can be subjective in some way. By referring to events involving white supremacy as a “perceived threat”, you are suggesting that counter argument could also be true, which is that instances of white supremacy are not a threat. Anyone with a cursory understanding of white supremacy should know that it is an irrefutable threat to African Americans.
African Americans reactions to charges of racism and white supremacy are not something that resulted through conditioning from the media. Unless you are completed disconnected from the black community, you’ve most likely experienced the tangibles instances of white supremacy and racism that manifest from interaction with law enforcement, the constant rejection occurring while doing a job search, the stalking that takes place while shopping in a neighborhood store, the barrage of demoralizing images and white supremacist commentary within the media, and so many other things. These ubiquitous occurrences of white supremacy have created and sustained the method in which African Americans respond. The response only intensifies as certain black people become more astute about their history and current socio-economic situation. The media does not revel in highlighting racism and white supremacy; it is more engaged in obfuscating and denying the existence of white supremacy (All popular outlets, not just Faux news). The media, along with other social institutions, is largely responsible for tranquilizing the reaction to white supremacy. Thus explains why the black community’s reaction is mostly ineffective and insufficient when it comes to combating white supremacy.
If Ron Paul (whom not only associated with known white supremacist but also has been seen in photos with them) was called out by members of the GOP in an effort to thwart attention off of their own misdeeds—so be it. It does not mean that Ron Paul is not a white supremacist and or friendly to their stance. If one Rapist outs another Rapists that does not mean a women will be any more comfortable with either. It does not matter who intended what. The fact remains that they are both rapist and therefore a threat to women. If anything, the media is responsible for individualizing racism, to thwart African American attention away from the more systematic manifestation of this ideology. The things that you mentioned about jobs, incarceration, education, etc, are heavily reflective of white supremacist systematic influences.
marcel armstead
July 18, 2012 at 6:17 pm
She too smart. Blacks waste too much time on bs racism. Need to spend time on what really impact black People. Jobs unemployment, crime, etc not bs racism.
Derrick
July 19, 2012 at 2:27 pm
@marsmell: “Blacks waste too much time on bs racism. Need to spend time on what really impact black People. Jobs unemployment, crime, etc not bs racism.”
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Blacks have to go to you bullshyt crackers for jobs, am I right? Who do y’all hire B4 you’ll hire a Black person, who is much more intelligent and qualified for the job…a cracker.
When will cracker pigs quit KILLING our young Black youth, who don’t have weapons? When will you crackers stop being racist? YOU KNOW THE DEAL!
You racist love to hear a brainwashed negroid talk out the side of their neck, like this negroid has done. You dumb jackasses know you are racist and should go to the dumb klan site with the rest of your racist dumb crackers. They can underSTAND what you just tried to post.
kooky
kinky
krackers
See Ya!
Derrick
July 18, 2012 at 3:47 pm
Another negroid beLIEving the ‘psychology’ of a caucasoid! While using dogs!!! d**n! Caucasoids have PSYCHED y’all negroids out!
Please read the article entitled THE EDUCATED SLAVE!
Ivan Pavlov WAS NOT technically a psychologist, he is credited for a number of breakthroughs, that started the field of behaviorisms. He is perhaps most famous for his work with dogs, and many people have heard of Pavlov’s dogs. He conducted a number of experiments that offered insight into the way that dogs respond to certain situations subconsciously.
HOW CAN YOU COMPARE BLACK PEOPLE TO DOGS?
The other racist, who FOLLOWED in his footsteps were B.F. Skinner, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Abraham Maslow, who conducted studies on Blacks and ALL of them claimed that Blacks were inferior to the caucasoid race. Therefore, what this cracker is saying is a bunch of bullshit!
How can this negroid agree with this yankee when he is comparing DOGS with humans? Just because he’s a caucasoid, DOES NOT MEAN HE IS CORRECT!!!
RACISM IS ALIVE AND WELL IN GOOD OLD amerikkka and it ain’t going nowhere! It’s getting worse because of so-called educators like this negroid. The MAIN problem is that Blacks need to KNOW THEIR TRUE OURstory; not this slave bullshyt.
Blacks have a RIGHT to be against racism and racist caucasoids. Who owns the corporations? Who owns the MAJORITY of banks? Who control the senate (ALL CAUCASOIDS)! Who do we buy our food from? Y’all know the answer to each question; therefore, WHY CAN’T WE TALK ABOUT THESE RACIST BASTARDS, when we rely on them for food, shelter and jobs?
THIS IS A DUMB AZZ ARTICLE!