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Carl Hart
American
Educator
Born:
Oct 30
,
1966
Black
Education
Me
People
Think
You
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In the hood, you have a problem with somebody, you have to deal with it. The outcome is pretty immediate.
Carl Hart
You
Problem
Somebody
Immediate
Hood
Outcome
Pretty
Deal
It is my mission to put sensible and evidence-based information above politics and exaggeration.
Carl Hart
Politics
Exaggeration
Above
Put
Mission
Information
Sensible
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.
Carl Hart
Police
Black
Situation
White
Think
Latino
Colleagues
About
Case
Faced
Emergency
Students
Calling
Am
However
May
Certain
Twice
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.
Carl Hart
Veteran
Veterans
Black
Diversity
Military
Out
Both
Faculty
Term
Well
Because
Am
Subjected
Discrimination
Anything
Turns
I went into the military because I didn't get a scholarship, a basketball scholarship I thought that I would get.
Carl Hart
Thought
Military
Would
Scholarship
Because
Get
Basketball
If politicians did care about their constituents, they would work harder to seek out people like me. They don't.
Carl Hart
Work
Me
People
Care
Politicians
Out
Would
Constituents
Seek
About
Like
Did
Harder
Perhaps, for once, we should try interventions that are informed by science and proven to work.
Carl Hart
Work
Science
Try
Once
Perhaps
Proven
Informed
Should
When we make decisions based on factors other than the available empirical evidence, we are less than objective, which means we are no longer acting as scientists.
Carl Hart
Other
Evidence
Objective
Factors
Longer
Empirical
Make
Scientists
Than
Which
Decisions
Available
Means
Acting
Less
Based
If we stay focused on data and the real issues, we can tailor our inventions to enhance public health and safety while decreasing the likelihood of racial discrimination.
Carl Hart
Health
Safety
Our
Focused
Stay
Stay Focused
Data
Inventions
Tailor
Likelihood
Real
Issues
Real Issues
Discrimination
While
Public
Racial
Public Health
Decreasing
Enhance
I am a drug expert and the father of 3 black males.
Carl Hart
Father
Black
Am
Males
Expert
As a parent, a scientist, and educator, what I know is that it's always better to provide the education that will help keep my children - all people - safe, even if I don't want them to engage in the behavior.
Carl Hart
Education
People
Better
Behavior
Will
All People
Parent
Know
Safe
Always
Scientist
Provide
Educator
Children
Want
Them
Engage
Help
Even
Keep
It's not a crime to make a mistake; in fact, it's human. I certainly have made mistakes.
Carl Hart
Mistake
Crime
Made
Mistakes
Fact
Make
Human
In Fact
Certainly
Drug reformers get seduced by politicians who co-opt our language but who make no meaningful change. And when we don't hold politicians accountable, we contribute to harm.
Carl Hart
Change
Language
Politicians
Our
Seduced
Make
Accountable
Contribute
Get
Hold
Meaningful
Who
Harm
In the mainstream, I'm suspect because I'm black. I have dreadlocks, I have a goatee. I mean, I'm just suspect. In my classroom and at Columbia, I'm not as suspect because it's clear I know what I'm doing, but I am still suspect.
Carl Hart
Black
Classroom
Columbia
Clear
Mainstream
Know
Because
Am
Still
Doing
Suspect
Just
Mean
I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood.
Carl Hart
Hood
Neighborhood
Up
Miami
Grew
Poor
Researchers, treatment providers - we all have a stake in the drug hysteria game.
Carl Hart
Game
Hysteria
Providers
Stake
Researchers
Treatment
When you go to jail, you are under the supervision of the state. You are housed with people who are criminals, so that becomes the expectation. People learn to become better criminals in jail and prison.
Carl Hart
You
People
Better
Become
Prison
Expectation
State
Criminals
Supervision
Learn
Becomes
Go
Jail
Who
If you are funding researchers to look primarily for pathology, not surprisingly, that is what they are going to find and report on.
Carl Hart
You
Find
Primarily
Look
Surprisingly
Report
Going
Pathology
Researchers
Funding
Too often, ill-informed rhetoric has led to emotional hysteria that obfuscates solid evidence regarding the real problems faced by poor people and, in overwhelmingly great proportions, by black people.
Carl Hart
Great
People
Problems
Black
Too
Evidence
Solid
Faced
Proportions
Emotional
Hysteria
Real
Led
Real Problems
Often
Rhetoric
Regarding
Poor
Poor People
The listening community has the obligation of distinguishing informed opinion from tweets.
Carl Hart
Obligation
Listening
Community
Distinguishing
Opinion
Informed
Tweets
The notion that scientists are dispassionate - first of all, that's wrong. Scientists are extremely passionate.
Carl Hart
First
Extremely
Wrong
First Of All
Scientists
Passionate
Notion
Dispassionate
I had to go to England to really learn about American racism in a way that corroborated my reality. That was critical.
Carl Hart
Reality
Racism
Way
Critical
About
Had
Learn
Go
American
Really
England
When I got out of the military, I finished up my education at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and I had some mentors who said, 'You got what it takes. You should consider going to graduate school, getting a Ph.D. in neuroscience.' I didn't think I had what it took until somebody who had a Ph.D. told me I had what it takes.
Carl Hart
Education
Me
You
School
Somebody
Finished
Military
Think
Took
Consider
Carolina
Out
Wilmington
Some
Neuroscience
Mentors
Had
Takes
Until
Said
Got
Up
North
North Carolina
Graduate
Getting
Going
Graduate School
Should
Who
University
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