Implicit Bias makes it into the presidential debate
Implicit Bias in the News!
Are the police racists? Thoughts on implicit bias
During the first presidential debate, Hillary Clinton’s response to the question “Are the police racist?” brought the concept of implicit bias into the living rooms and minds of 84 million people. As someone who has been teaching people about implicit bias for the last few years, I was pleased.
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What would you do? We all have implicit biases that do not necessarily
align with our conscious beliefs. Watch this video and consider how many of the people in it are likely to acknowledge that their interventions were based on the race or gender of the “bicycle thief
Kids don’t see color; they just see people. Implicit biases build on the biases and stereotypes prevalent in the larger society, absorbed through exposure to social media, mass media, and other images and messages. As this video illustrates, kids are categorizing their peers by race at much younger ages than we might think.
