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Apparently the only reason anyone could possibly disagree with Obama is because they are black. It couldn't possibly have anything to do with his policies, no-sir-e, it has to be that white people are racist.
Her conclusion is based on something called "implicit bias"- prejudices that people don't realize they have.
Studies show that due to longstanding negative stereotypes about African-Americans - which give such false impressions as most black people are dangerous, unintelligent or prefer welfare to work - many people harbor anti-black biases yet don't even know it. Such unconscious biases, the studies show, are present in people of all backgrounds, not just whites.
"Our history has created this unconscious bias," said Gail Christopher, vice president of program strategy for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which has funded research on the subject. "Now we need to create safe places to discuss and educate people about unconscious bias, where we are not blaming and shaming them."
Those safe places generally do not include the political arena.
"Every time they say, 'We want our country back,' I know what that means," Susan Bankston, a white Democratic National Convention delegate from Richmond, Texas, said at the gathering last week.
"You recognize it when every time the Republicans with their own convention refer to him by his first name, Barack Obama. He's President Barack Obama," said Patt Sanders, a delegate from Englewood, Calif., who is black.
Read more: http://www.statejournal.com/story/19503438/does-racial-bias-fuel-obama-foes-how-to-tell
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