An interesting piece which touches on the reality of racism that Americans ignore or avoid or pretend does not exist.
'The mind works in mysterious ways: unconscious race bias & Obama'
"...while there is little difference between conservatives explicit and unconscious racial biases (both being relatively high), liberals have relatively high unconsciousbut low explicitanti-black biases...."
By Gregory S. Parks & Matthew W. Hughey
"For over the past quarter century, psychologists have found that people make automatic associations between black and white racial categories, and negative and positive words, respectively. Even where individuals appear to harbor explicit, racially egalitarian attitudes, their unconscious racial attitudes may be wholly inconsistent. Numerous studies find that anywhere from 75-90% of whites, roughly 65% of Asian and Latino/a Americans, and from 35-65% of blacks harbor these automatic, unconscious, pro-white/anti-black biases. Not only do college first-year studentsthe typical participants of university-based psychological studiesharbor these biases; studies show that judges, lawyers, physicians, black professionals, and a broad swath of the American public hold these biases as well. These biases are important because the influence judgment, decision-making, and behavior." OUPblog » Blog Archive » The mind works in mysterious ways: unconscious race bias & Obama
"We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced." Herbert Spencer
'The mind works in mysterious ways: unconscious race bias & Obama'
"...while there is little difference between conservatives explicit and unconscious racial biases (both being relatively high), liberals have relatively high unconsciousbut low explicitanti-black biases...."
By Gregory S. Parks & Matthew W. Hughey
"For over the past quarter century, psychologists have found that people make automatic associations between black and white racial categories, and negative and positive words, respectively. Even where individuals appear to harbor explicit, racially egalitarian attitudes, their unconscious racial attitudes may be wholly inconsistent. Numerous studies find that anywhere from 75-90% of whites, roughly 65% of Asian and Latino/a Americans, and from 35-65% of blacks harbor these automatic, unconscious, pro-white/anti-black biases. Not only do college first-year studentsthe typical participants of university-based psychological studiesharbor these biases; studies show that judges, lawyers, physicians, black professionals, and a broad swath of the American public hold these biases as well. These biases are important because the influence judgment, decision-making, and behavior." OUPblog » Blog Archive » The mind works in mysterious ways: unconscious race bias & Obama
"We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced." Herbert Spencer