Culture
We're Still Dehumanizing Others
New research finds that seeing certain racial groups as less human isn’t a thing of the past.
With each new story that surfaces about violence against black men, women, and children, the idea of post-racial America is buried a bit deeper. In one recent gut-wrenching video, police officers in San Francisco surround a homeless man with a prosthetic leg. At one point, four of them pin him down despite his cries of protest.
Here’s what Chaédria LaBouvier, a journalist who filmed this incident, wrote on Medium: