Beneath its polished rhetoric of ‘peace’ and ‘progress,’ the EU has spent decades ensuring that DR Congo’s vast resources fuel European industries, not African prosperity. It has operated as an empire of plunder, keeping Congo incapable of challenging European corporate exploitation. Our Facts of the Week expose how Europe’s grip on DR Congo has always been tight.
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MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the escalation of violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo | B10-0105/2025 | European…
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION to wind up the debate on the statements by the Council and the Commission pursuant to Rule 136(2) of the Rules of Procedure on the escalation of violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (2025/2553(RSP)) Thierry Mariani…
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BLACK OR WHITE? THE UGLY DOLL EXPERIMENT
In the 1940s, psychologists Kenneth Bancroft Clark (1914-2005) and his wife, Mamie Phipps Clark (1917-83), designed the ‘Doll Study’ to measure the psychological effects of US segregation on Black children. The focus groups featured Black children ages 3 to 7, whom the psychologists asked to pick between Black and white dolls, which were pretty or nice, and which looked most like them.
The study found most Black children overwhelmingly attributed positive traits to white dolls and negative ones to Black dolls, confirming for the psychologists that policies, such as segregation, shaped how Black children viewed themselves. The study’s results informed the Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that outlawed segregation in public schools because it was unconstitutional.
However, racial policies continue to disproportionately affect Black people in the US through every stage of our lives.
In the 1940s, psychologists Kenneth Bancroft Clark (1914-2005) and his wife, Mamie Phipps Clark (1917-83), designed the ‘Doll Study’ to measure the psychological effects of US segregation on Black children. The focus groups featured Black children ages 3 to 7, whom the psychologists asked to pick between Black and white dolls, which were pretty or nice, and which looked most like them.
The study found most Black children overwhelmingly attributed positive traits to white dolls and negative ones to Black dolls, confirming for the psychologists that policies, such as segregation, shaped how Black children viewed themselves. The study’s results informed the Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that outlawed segregation in public schools because it was unconstitutional.
However, racial policies continue to disproportionately affect Black people in the US through every stage of our lives.
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Continued….. For example, in January, the Trump administration issued an executive order terminating DEI and ‘diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility’ (DEIA) mandates, calling them ‘illegal.’ Thus, the US resists correcting the ills of slavery and levelling the playing field between the privileged populations and its internal colonies, with Black people being among them.
Video credit: @MSNBC (X)
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https://kennethclark.commons.gc.cuny.edu/the-doll-study/
https://www.naacpldf.org/brown-vs-board/significance-doll-test
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-and-wasteful-government-dei-programs-and-preferencing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFaPb9ZReTE
Video credit: @MSNBC (X)
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The Significance of "The Doll Test"
Dr. Kenneth Mark's "Doll Test" was utilized in Brown v. Board to show the psychological significance of segregation on African-American children.
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