Sadly, racism is everywhere in this world, even if people don’t want to admit it. We can only hope that things will get better, and they’ve come a long way in the last hundred years, but every once in a while there’s a step back in progress.
Here’s a couple steps and three massive leaps back. Twitterer @iBeKabir was screwing around on his phone and did a simple Google image search of “three black teenagers.” The results were mostly mugshots of young black men and women in groups of three. So what happens when he changes one word in the search query?
YOOOOOO LOOK AT THIS pic.twitter.com/uY1JysFm8w
— July 3rd. (@iBeKabir) June 7, 2016
Wow. I guess we know who Google image search is voting for in November.