KYW Newsradio 1060 Philadelphia - Local Expert Says Sweeten's Stress May Have Dredged Up Racism
Prior to this week, the most latest instance happened honest behind fall. Ashley Todd of Pittsburgh, Pa. McCain crusade volunteer -- claimed that a dusky person had carved the correspondence "B" into her correctly cheek and told her that she had to ease Barack Obama for president.
The send "B," it turned out, was written backwards, however would arise equitable when viewed in a mirror. In 1994 Susan Smith rolled a car, with her two budding sons inside, into a North Carolina lake, then tried to involve her tracks by claiming that she had been carjacked by a inklike man. Dr.
Sonja Peterson-Lewis, a social psychologist who teaches at Temple University, believes that humans who chalk up been thrust into stressful or crook situations tend to fall back on stereotypes: "We bear all in some ways or the other been trained to grip decided nation as perpetrators and trustworthy commonality as victims."
Peterson-Lewis says Bonnie Sweeten (in photo above) probably was hoping to pick up sympathy from the common -- and feasibly police investigators -- by invoking the "scary coal men" scenario. Embers Departure Scale Down Again, Add Officials Nutter Makes a Work Hazard Over Saturday's Entertainment Phila. NAACP Sues US Airways for Discrimination at PHL Penna.
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