{"id":586179,"date":"2021-07-08T13:35:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T17:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=586179"},"modified":"2021-07-08T13:35:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T17:35:42","slug":"science-journal-geology-is-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/science-journal-geology-is-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Journal: Geology Is Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fscience-journal-geology-is-racist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=586179&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"27.761589403974\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/\">Campus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Scientists say black people are too scared to hold rock hammers<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rock-hammer_736x514.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rock-hammer_736x514.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rock-hammer_736x514-300x210.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rock-hammer_736x514-703x491.jpeg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/>\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/leiflemahieu\/\" title=\"Posts by Leif Le Mahieu\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Leif Le Mahieu<\/a> \u2022 July 8, 2021 1:27 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"99.867414248021\">\n<p>A group of scientists say black Americans are scared to use hammers needed for geology because of fear they will be killed by police.<\/p>\n<p>Top geologists condemned systemic white supremacy in the field of geoscience, which concerns the study of earth and rocks, in a manifesto published at&nbsp;the scientific journal&nbsp;<em>Nature<\/em> <em>Communications<\/em>. The academics claim black people are hesitant to take up geology&nbsp;because they fear being killed while handling basic geology tools as a result of the stereotype associated with black people &#8220;holding objects.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the geosciences strive to be more accessible, the community must recognize that BIPOC and other marginalized geoscientists are not always safe in geoscience spaces,&#8221; the article said. &#8220;Holding objects (e.g., a rock hammer) has been viewed as \u2018suspicious&#8217; and, continues to be, used as a reason to call the police on Black people, which can lead to the death of Black individuals, entirely because of racial profiling and an unjustified fear of Black people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Geology rock hammers, roughly 16 oz. handheld hammers featuring traditional metal faces and a picked head, are typically used by geologists to break open rocks to study their composition.<\/p>\n<p>The manifesto, which was spearheaded by Fort Hays State University geology professor&nbsp;Hendratta Ali and signed by 20 academics, asserts that the lack of black geologists demonstrates the bigoted roots of the science. They called on colleagues to quash the racist &#8220;expectations around manners, clothing, hair, professional attire, language, and diction&#8221; in an effort to boost diversity in the field.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Racism has led to the geosciences becoming one of the least diverse among all science and engineering fields,&#8221; they wrote. &#8220;Racism thrives in geoscience. Geoscience organizations function alongside the same racist ideologies and practices shaping society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Sanfilippo, a lead researcher for the National Association of Scholars&#8217; Sciences Project, said the push for intersectionality in hard sciences will hurt America&#8217;s scientific stature.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Its spread will cripple America\u2019s capacity to recruit the best scientists. Instead of the bold thinkers good science requires, we will have ideologues and careerist time-servers. Worse, it will drive away foreign students and professors, who will have no interest in coming to an America crippled by requirements to swear allegiance to untruth,&#8221; Sanfilippo told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;Concerns about diversity often seem to eclipse concerns about the actual science itself\u2026. The standards, for now, are still largely meritocratic. But the rationale that underlies a meritocratic system is being chipped away at by critical theory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sanfilippo said the rise of intersectional science does not bode well for the future of the American academy. &#8220;In short, if the movement continues unhindered, American hegemony in the sciences may be jeopardized,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Ali nor the journal responded to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus Scientists say black people are too scared to hold rock hammers  Leif Le Mahieu \u2022 July 8, 2021 1:27 pm A group of scientists &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1897426,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}