Do you have racial biases?

[el_bryanto]

When I say racial biases I mean impulses upon seeing people of a different race than yourself - some of which might be negative, some of which might be positive.

This is inspired by a discussion on another thread about the President's recent speech.

Bryant

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[Stallion]

1. You are Probably Lying or Under 2 if You Say No

but with education, understanding and good sense prejudice can be overcome

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. I do. But I'm trying to work on eliminating them. For example. The other day I saw this white guy,

in what looked to be a very expensive suit. He was talking about business on a cel. phone. I almost called the SEC on his ass.


Edit:
SEC SEC 'cause I'm a bigot and apparently an idiot.

[el_bryanto]

3. I don't know - he was probably guilty of something. Better safe than sorry. nt

[liberal_at_heart]

4. I have a social anxiety disorder so I tend to be reserved around all people. I'm usually so focused

on my general social anxiety I've never noticed if any of it is racial, but I wouldn't doubt if some of it is.

[Quackers]

9. I like this post.

I have bad anxiety. I take 3 different meds for it, one of them is twice a day. With that said, I would like to believe that I hate all people equally.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

5. This thread could have *major* potential...

if everyone listed one positive and one negative racial bias.

[el_bryanto]

6. That is true

I'll say that I knew one and only one black person growing up - so when I moved to the South I didn't have a lot to go on and tended to see them as exotic and alien, which took a while to get over. In particular when a black person looked angry or upset, to my eyes, he looked really really angry and threatening (TV probably played a roll there) in a way that white people didn't.

On the other hand I knew a few kids from the middle east growing up and then in college and tended to have a very positive reaction to them - they seemed easy to get along with. I still more or less do.

Bryant

[WorseBeforeBetter]

12. Interesting. My family moved from...

lily-white SW PA to just outside of DC, so from about fourth grade through college, my circle of friends was one big rainbow coalition. We're all in touch via Facebook and reunions, but not as close as we once were.

Well, good luck with your thread. I'm off to watch "The Lunchbox," because, you know, Indians are smart and I like smart movies.

[Rowdyboy]

7. I was raised in Mississippi during the civil rights movement (born in 1954)....Of course I do

Acknowledging that and learning how to evolve past it is part of growing up.

[NuclearDem]

8. I do. Being aware of it is the first step in dealing with it.

[Brickbat]

10. Absolutely. I try not to act on them, though, with varying success.

[sendero]

11. I believe most people have racial biases..

.... whether they consciously acknowledge them or not.

What matters is how it affects your actions.

[mythology]

13. I have evidence that I have some

I took a psych study test where you would see a picture of a face briefly and then even faster a weapon or a tool. So like a gun or a drill. While my accuracy in seeing the tool or weapon didn't change, my response time was slower when seeing a black face.

That said I don't believe I act on that.

One weird thing I find that I do, is when taking change from a minority cashier, I have a habit of actually letting my fingers touch theirs in a way I don't do with white cashiers. I don't have a good theory of why other than to maybe show I'm not afraid to do so.

[olddots]

14. I do and try to eliminate them

They are part of our human tribal bullshit that we hopefully can overcome .

[hunter]

15. All-white groups of young males bother me.

I'm white, I grew up in an all white community, and all the guys who bullied, harassed, and beat the hell out of me when I was a kid were, of course, white.

I've lived most of my life now in mostly cosmopolitan communities where white isn't a majority. That's my "normal." It feels weird when I visit places where everyone is white, more uncomfortable even than visiting places where most everyone is Asian or Native American or Black.

[lumberjack_jeff]

16. I try to be conscious of mine. n/t

[LWolf]

17. I don't have biases triggered by

people who don't look like me.

I DO have cultural biases, which I am aware of, and generally try to move beyond. I'm a work in progress.

[Wounded Bear]

18. I hate everybody equally...

so, yeah, I have biases.

[DawgHouse]

19. I do. I own it and try to check myself. nt

[BlueJazz]

20. No, I don't but I do have one main cultural bias. Don't ask..please.

[Behind the Aegis]

21. Most people have racial bias, but everyone has biases, in general.

It is how we act on those biases which can be problematic or not.

[JonLP24]

22. Take the test

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/selectatest.html

It is interesting like the President test. It switches it up and asks you "left" "right" so much that eventually you aren't planning your responses. I was quick to "left" for Jimmy Carter, accidentally moved "right" on Clinton more than a few times. I also made mistakes on the bad adjectives when it came to Nixon & Reagan. I made a mistake on the word "terrible" with Obama but for some reason didn't when it came to the far worse adjectives.

Very interesting tests.