![]() They would often commit these crimes at night and would get away. There was a period when Whites would color their faces and then commit crimes. Accordingly, there were Whites who took advantage of this ideology and purposely ingrained it in our societal consciousness. Thus, the perpetrator of any crime was thought to be black. In other words, crime and color were conflated, thought of as one. In 1833, almost a 180 years ago, Fredrick Douglas wrote about the South’s tendency to impute crime to color. This narrative of racially motivated crimes and the criminalization of Black and Latino males is not new. The names will change, but the crime’s root problem will remain. There will be another Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman, sadly. Unfortunately, the picture above is correct. What do you think about intuition? Do you follow your intuition? Why are women, stereotypically, more in tune with their intuition? I also need to heal from previous hurt and pain and be more trusting of myself. In order to hear my intuition, I need to be still and calm. However, it is one that I, as a member as a logic focused society, do not follow consistently and/or constantly. Malcolm Gladwell wrote a novel, Blink, on the power of intuition, suggesting there needs to be a movement towards favoring this feeling. ![]() Intuition is commonly understood be to a gut feeling, often suggested to be located roughly three fingers below your navel. As a result, I do not pay attention to my intuition. In our culture, reason is privileged, thus to move “forward” or “progress” I ascribe to this dominant strain of thought. As Einstein suggests, I do not listen to my intuition, instead favoring my logical mind. One of my problems as a critical thinking academic is that I am constantly overthinking and overanalyzing everything.
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