[Rockhounds] They are coming for you now

[Edward Tindell]

I believe the article is 100% B.S. as there are lots of black construction workers, surveyors, mechanics, et cetera, who work with hand tools all the time. No stigma of being shot by police there. I believe the people who enter into any field of endeavor - be it math, physics, geology, chemistry, or whatever - are those who have the aptitude and interest for it. In my experience few black people are interested in geology. I've collected rocks for 50+ years and been on hundreds of field trips and attended untold numbers of rock shows and club meetings all across the country and, in my experience, black people are the exception by far, at those activities. Few black rock hounds, few black geologist. I can also tell you that most of the black people I have met at such activities have been artist or lapidaries not rock hounds or geologist. I can also tell you that I have met many rock hounds and geologist who are not white, just not black.

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From: Rockhounds [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com] On Behalf Of Paul van den Bergen
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That's the nature of systematic bias - it occupies every aspect of a society.

On Sat, 10 Jul 2021 at 07:00, J Bryan Kramer <codeburner at gmail.com> wrote:

> " Top geologists condemned systemic white supremacy in the field of 
> geoscience, which concerns the study of earth and rocks, in a 
> manifesto published at the scientific journal *Nature* 
> *Communications*. The academics claim black people are hesitant to 
> take up geology because they fear being killed while handling basic 
> geology tools as a result of the stereotype associated with black people "holding objects."
>
> <https://freebeacon.com/campus/science-journal-geology-is-racist/>
>
> ““There exists a law…inborn of our hearts…by natural intuition. … If 
> our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or 
> enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.””
> Cicero
>
> J Bryan Krämer       North Florida, USA
> photos at: http://pbase.com/photoburner 
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