August 19, 2010
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8.19/2010
Why is it that when an African American person does something crazy that their picture appears more readily in the news than someone who is white. I've known this truism for a while now, but, recently, it has become more apparent. Take this as an example. There's a woman in South Carolina who strangled and drowned her children. Her picture was up on CNN essentially on day one. However, today I read an article on a caucasian, American man who established a school in Haiti, but was having sex with Haitian boys. CNN mentioned his name, but did not put in a picture, despite there being pictures all over the internet when I googled the name. I don't understand this. Why, seemingly intentionally, does the media tend to avoid using pictures of whites when something crazy happens, but readily use them when it concerns blacks (and possibly other people of color)?
Subliminal racism?
One of my friends, I think, ran into an aggressive interviewer. He wanted to go to a Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) school and his Dean was able to get him an interview with the Dean of Admissions of the DO school. Well, when applying to medical schools there are multiple types of interviews. There's a single interview, a group interview, a passive interview, and an aggressive interview. The single interview is the traditional interview with one interviewee and one interviewer. The group interview can be one interviewee versus a panel of interviewers, multiple interviewees and a single interviewer, or a panel of interviewers and a group of interviewees. The passive interview is an interview where the interviewer basically has a conversation with the person, passively identifying strengths and weaknesses and uses very open, or non-jugemental pointed questions. The aggressive interview, on the other hand, is more like an interrogation. The interviewer (or interviewers) will ask pointed questions about the applicant's grade point average, MCAT score, qualifications to be a physician, and essentially play the role of devil's advocate. The whole point of this type of interviewing, I think, is to see how the applicant deals with stress and stressful situations. Sad fact is... my friend failed.
Interviewing is a skill.
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