Timely. I recently read Malcolm Gladwell's must read, "Blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking."
He pointed out that "When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement—and the number of items they got right was cut in half."
There was a track and field guy who took the race IAT test frequently and his score remained the same until one day when he had watched the Olympics (black excellence) before taking it and it changed for the better.
He wrote quite a bit on police shootings. "Three of the major race riots in this country over the past quarter century have been caused by what cops did at the end of a chase.” There are too many lessons in that section for me to quote. I will repeat the words must read book.
Feb 10, 2024
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