There is a dirty little secret about racism, one no one talks about.
It’s moved.
Seth Stevens-Davidovitz, a Google scientist who moved to The New York Times to do “data journalism,” did the research but, because of how he wrote his story , it was not really appreciated.
His method was to use Google Insights and search for racially-charged terms, like the one the President offered Marc Maron last week. He used data from 2004 to 2007, before the President won election, in order to take him out of the equation. Then he looked at where the queries came from, comparing their frequency across metropolitan areas.
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