Does it matter if you’re black on the Internet?
Via think on this.
Sadly, yes. A field experiment involving baseball card auctions on eBay:
Photographs showed the cards held by either a dark-skinned/African-American hand or a light-skinned/Caucasian hand.
Cards held by African-American sellers sold for approximately 20% ($0.90) less than cards held by Caucasian sellers, and the race effect was more pronounced in sales of minority player cards.
A new paper by Ayres, Banaji, and Jolls.
i should probably feel less shock over this than i do. guess the jaded-meter isn’t maxed out yet.
(Source: abbyjean)
Posted on Saturday October 29th
About me
we stopped in every passing placeto watch the world move
faster than we do
watch it pass with our eyes closed
the way we usually choose to
--idlewild, in remote part/scottish fiction
these are some of the things that made me slow down, take a moment, smile or sigh or laugh or scream or somehow shut off the autopilot so that i might really take notice of the world, or at least one small part of it, before continuing on my way.
things that caught my attention, when i let them.
