American - Educator | October 30, 1966 -
Teaching university students affords me the opportunity to demonstrate to young adults that they don't have to be perfect to make contributions to their country.
Carl Hart
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My research has taught me many important lessons, but perhaps none more important than this: drug effects, like semesters, are predictable; police interactions with black people are not.
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I am certain that my white colleagues, when faced with an emergency situation, wouldn't think twice about calling the police. This, however, may not be the case for their black and Latino students.
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It turns out that the term 'diversity' can be anything from black faculty to military veterans. Well, I am both, but have yet to be subjected to discrimination because I'm a veteran.
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The way we have been thinking about brain science is that people show you pretty pictures, pretty images, and you think that that tells you something about how they behave. It doesn't.
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It takes some courage to say you were wrong.
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I went into the military because I didn't get a scholarship, a basketball scholarship I thought that I would get.
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I went to college in the Air Force, and I went to college at the University of Maryland, who had college campuses on Air Force bases.
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I did most of my Ph.D. in Washington. They used to bring black kids through the lab for tours, and I was one of the few black researchers.
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If politicians did care about their constituents, they would work harder to seek out people like me. They don't.
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Perhaps, for once, we should try interventions that are informed by science and proven to work.
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I am committed to the people who are sick and tired of seeing their tax dollars being used to fund unethical people and corporations.
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