Collabyrinth Principal Consultant, Melvin Bray, has been engaged by Auburn Seminary to co-organize the Table for Action Project Atlanta, along with professor and activist Letitia Campbell. In follow-up to an initial gathering of potential lead hosts 9 December 2014, Auburn sponsors Lisa Anderson and Macky Alston and they two local organizers met today to clarify the program’s vision, audience and timeline.more…
[EXCERPT]–In a classic study on race, psychologists staged an experiment with two photographs that produced a surprising result. They showed people a photograph of two white men fighting, one unarmed and another holding a knife. Then they showed another photograph, this one of a white man with a knife fighting an unarmed African-American man. When they asked people to identify the man who was armed in the first picture, most people picked the right one. Yet when they were asked the same question about the second photo, most people — black and white — incorrectly said the black man had the knife. Even before themore…