being, that you were not expected to aspire to excellence, but to make peace with mediocrity, and with potential violence with your body. i am joined by jonathan metfield of vanderbilt university and adam sewerer and nicole bell. i want to talk about race here, because as much as we are talking about hood dishere, hoo adam. well, the remarks of president obama are extraordinary, and this happened sort of with the henry louis gates moment when he was arrested inside of his house. there is a way in which the president is the president and he is dealing with the big issues, but he sort of reminds you that if he had been walking around that sanford, florida,
neighborhood, zimmerman might have called the cops on him, and it is an acknowledgment that despite the fact that the president is black, these issues and these factors still impact people s lives in drastic ways. jonathan, your research in part talks about the assumption of criminality around black men and black men s bodies and tell me how that may have influenced what happened in sanford, flori florida, that night? well, two points about that. of course, this as i said before is an individual tragedy, but there are whole structures around that sort of cultural mistrust of african-american men, and this plays out as we know across the medical system and the penal system, and part of it is the schizophrenia around african-american men, and even when we try to train doctors and police officers not to automatically make assumptions, even after years and years of training, people
actu actually reducing that form of racism that we have that we don t realize that we have, and it is because of the medication kind of dampens down the fear response. so i m reading it thinking, that if we put this medication in t he wa ter for example in sanford, florida, then maybe we would never again have the kind of tragedy that we had in the tragedy of the context oft trayvon martin or maybe we would have more people of color in elected office or something. can this really end implicit racism? two points, but first, anything that we put in the water, i m for it. but actually well, anything. well, there are tons of prozac in the water with people flushing it, but two points, when i saw that study, there is an interesting historical tension here, because there was a big debate in the 1960s and 1970s about is racism a illness, mental illness? but that argument was made by black activist psychiatrist such
leaders in florida would find themselves in solidarity with the african-american church and seek justice in the trayvon martin case. i don t want to be unfair, but it is completely possible there on the ground that we have local catholic churches ding that, but we haven t heard anything at the level of the bishop bishops. i suspect that is the case. but sometimes it is more difficult for the church to speak out on issues of immigration, of poverty and social justice, because the teachings in those areas are inherently a little more nuanced and complicated, and they don t make for good sound bite. in our sound bite political culture and sound bite political discourse, nuances get lost and the bishops can be saying things, but people are not listening or the bishops can be saying things, and because it is complex, it does not fit neatly into the discourse. well, you can always bring those nuances into nerd land. thank you all for being on the show. good to be with you, melissa.
$500 and six months in jail. and they were not alone. mansfield city carries a fine of up to $500 or 15 days in jail. in albany, georgia, it could cost you $200 and as of september, the city has made $4,000 on saggy pants citations. so if the cops don t get you, the parents are sure to be mad for costing them all that money. and in florida, there is a statewide ban on saggy pants the there, because that s the most important issue in florida right now. just say no to saggy pants. last but certainly not least, the pesky hoodies, because think are a fashion no-no for mhp s dress code for safety and geraldo thinks so, and he said it on fox news. i am urging the parents of