Abstract
In recent years it seems that violence against black folks has
exponentially increased. However, the case is that this ‘exponential
increase’ is really bringing to the fore historically persisting results
of Jim Crow beliefs, laws, and practices. The ability to record such
events so readily paints a façade of some increase in such racial
violence. When the excesses of violence and discrimination against black
folks has persisted for centuries. And the sociohistoric residue of
folks’ attitudes and practices has perdured through the generations of
individuals. How many times have we heard the phrase, “I’m not racist,
I have black friends”? Or “I feared for my life, so I shot in
self-defense”? This manuscript, as a continuing series of working
hypotheses, contends that these events are related. Toward gathering the
knowledge about individual reasoning processes, these events are related
by either supporting or thwarting that racist thinking is a product of
fear.