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(04-13-2018, 03:35 PM)Belsnickel Wrote:  When talking about this, and other topics that one would often associate with black people, the professor gestures more towards the black students and looks their way more often than when we are discussing topics people would associate with white people, or maybe Hispanic/Latino groups.

This is kind of what I'm talking about. Is he REALLY gesturing more towards black students when referencing black topics or is that just something that they THINK. I'm not there, obviously, but is it possible that the teacher makes the same gestures at other times but it only APPEARS as if he's gesturing towards blacks because they have it in their minds that's what he's doing?

Maybe he is gesturing this way in YOUR class, but can you see where in a similar, but different situation where someone could THINK that someone is gesturing to them when speaking on a subject about their race when it's common for the speaker ot make the same gesture for all kinds of topics?