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CSUSB dean and faculty interviewed for ‘Policing in Black Communities (Part 2): The Political Influence’
NBC Palm Springs
June 25, 2020
Part one of the NBC Palm Springs multi-part series focused on the history of slavery in America and how the black community was treated by police from the beginning. In part two, reporter Daytona Everett and a panel of experts from Cal State San Bernardino dive deeper into the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the growing political influence on law enforcement in the mid-1900s.
“If we defined racism as the notion that certain groups are inferior, well then there’s a connection between seeing a particular group say, African Americans, as inferior, more irresponsible, more prone to immoral behavior, more unintelligent, lazy, etcetera,” CSUSB history Professor Marc Robinson said. “Those kinds of inferior qualities then overlap with notions of criminality and notions of a population that demand more aggressive kind of policing.”
“If we defined racism as the notion that certain groups are inferior, well then there’s a connection between seeing a particular group say, African Americans, as inferior, more irresponsible, more prone to immoral behavior, more unintelligent, lazy, etcetera,” CSUSB history Professor Marc Robinson said. “Those kinds of inferior qualities then overlap with notions of criminality and notions of a population that demand more aggressive kind of policing,”
“Would you say that the racism in the past is better or worse than what we see in policing today?” NBC Palm Springs asked the experts from Cal State San Bernardino’s College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
“Their emphasis on the behaviors, generally concentrated on communities and communities of color has validated pre-existing notions that people have about these communities,” Rafik Mohamed, dean of the college said.
Part three is scheduled to air on NBC Palm Springs today, Friday, June 26.
See the complete segment at “Policing in Black Communities (Part 2): The Political Influence.”
CSUSB professor joins panel to discuss equity in remote learning
High Desert Daily
June 25, 2020
Enrique Murillo Jr., a professor of education at Cal State San Bernardino and executive director of its Latino Education and Advocacy Days (LEAD), will be one of the panelists at a forum that will focus on the policies and strategies that university officials should consider to make remote learning more equitable.
The forum, presented by The Chronicle of Higher Education and to be held virtually, will talk place at 11 a.m. Pacific time on Monday, June 29.
Read the complete article at “CSUSB professor joins panel to discuss equity in remote learning.”
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